CPA Australia members took part in an evening game on 8 November as a way to gain awareness on climate change and the ethics of carbon trading. Not surprisingly, the game began slowly with countries pulling out calculators and set squares to determine the optimum price / measurement ratio for their resources.
However, after about 30 minutes some deposits trickled in. It was due to some forward planing and surprising "outside the square" thinking by Brazil that it was able to take an early, unassailable lead. The UK discovered some of its resources were confiscated by an unidentified pirate / rogue power. By the end of the game Cambodia had sent a delegation to the UN to complain of undervaluation of its large resource base by the World Bank. In all this turned out to be a game very close to a
real world scenario.
Thanks to Bruce Stephens, Chris Lam, Ellie Ng for their help and May and Selina of CPA Australia for the all the arrangements.
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