YEA's 3rd Edition, Day 1: Climate Fresk and Mega Watt

Climate Fresk is an interactive workshop designed based on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. It allows participants to build a visual timeline of the Earth's climate history. Our YEA attendees worked in groups to arrange a set of cards containing scientific information about climate-related events, causes, and effects, creating a comprehensive mind-map. Each group then presented their final mind-maps and Climate Fresk experience. The attendees enjoyed the hands-on way Climate Fresk explored climate literacy and expressed that the game helped them understand the feedback loop between human activity and worsening environmental impact.

Later in the day, our attendees split into new groups to play Megawatt, a beautifully designed card game in which players aim to build an electricity grid with the highest power generation capacity and lowest environmental impact. Megawatt explores various energy sources, such as fossil fuels “Coal” and “Gas”, as well as renewable energy sources such as “Hydro”, “Wind”, and “Solar”.

Through the game, our attendees learned that the successful electricity grid is comprehensive, instead of heavily relying on a particular energy source. The real-world applications of this message were brought to light by Mr. Jimmy Hau, Asia Pacific Marketing Supervisor at ExxonMobil. Mr. Hau explained ExxonMobil’s initiatives in advancing lower-emission technologies such as carbon capture and storage, advanced biofuels, hydrogen, and lithium, to achieve a more comprehensive, diversified resource portfolio. We would like to thank Mr. Hau for his time and valuable insights.

Our YEA attendees had a packed day full of enriching activities and learned a lot as a result!