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WASHINGTON D.C. , ZURICH , and FRANKFURT, Germany , May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A game with a difference is being launched this week: Players canruin the world or save our planet by opting for choices based onreal-world data that has not been publicly available so far. TheFacebook game aims to mobilise people to demand action rather thanjust talk from the Rio+20 summit in June. Game Change Rio offers a great way to engage with the complexitiesfacing our planet today. "Once more of us begin to understand theissues involved, we have a better chance of changing the game,"said Hans Herren , winner of the World Food Prize in 1995, and one of the initiatorsof the game. Some 20 years ago, the Earth Summit, the United Nations Conferenceheld in Rio de Janeiro , sounded the alarm on the future of our planet. Very little hashappened since and Rio+20 was called to address global inertia andmake change happen after all. But this follow-up summit is upagainst many vested interests and only with strong public pressure,is there hope for a game change. "We developed 'Game Change Rio' to get the message to people wemight not reach through other channels," Herren said. To make ittruly global, the game is available in English, Arabic, Chinese,French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. A trip to the Rio summitawaits the player with the highest score and additional prizes willgo to weekly champions. Game Change Rio gives access to real-world data that so far hasonly been available to experts and policy makers. Based on theMillennium Institute's Green Economy Model, which was commissionedby the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the gameincludes all relevant sectors of the world's economy and thenatural resources available. All of these elements are linked andeffects of policies are seen in their full complexity. The modelhas over 5,000 indicators, and with the 125 policy cards developed,the game has over 100 million possible outcomes. Game Change Rio, the idea of Biovision - Foundation for ecologicalDevelopment, CodeSustainable and the Millennium Institute, aims toraise awareness for the issues that need to be addressed if futuregenerations are to enjoy life on this planet and goes on to proposesolutions to the problems we are facing. To play the game, for further information, interview opportunitiesand pictures, please go to . The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China Suspended Access Cradles , China Mast Climbing Work Platform, and more. For more , please visit Window Cleaning Platform today!
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