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News » OCC Launches!We are excited to announce that we have launched Operation Climate Control at the House of Commons this Tuesday. The game was launched by the Minister of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Phil Woolas MP, Sadiq Khan MP, plus a number of other high profile speakers to a packed crowd in Committee Room 10.Play the game on www.operationclimatecontrol.co.uk Oxford UK. 5 July 2007. Climate change affects all faiths, communities and countries and Alif-Aleph UK joined with The Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs [Defra] and indie games developer Red Redemption to host the launch of Operation Climate Control at the House of Commons on 3 July in a packed Committee Room 10. Operation: Climate Control, developed by Red Redemption and funded by Defra, is an innovative and exciting multi-player game aimed at GCSE school children aged 15-16 to educate them about the elements and impacts of climate policy and help stimulate a change in their attitudes and behaviour towards environmental sustainability. Attendees at the launched witnessed Jewish and Muslim teenagers test driving the game in friendly competition with each other and then demonstrating it for their benefit. Alif-Aleph UK, who hosted the event, is a group of British Muslims and British Jews committed to develop positive contacts between their faiths as a “good practice model” for all communities in the UK who find themselves divided. Speaking at the launch the Phil Woolas MP, in his first official task as Minister of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pointed out the immense challenge posed by climate change to communities the world over and commended both the cross faith initiative and the imaginative, fun game that is Operation Climate Control before presenting book tokens to the winning game participants. Other speakers included Sadiq Khan MP, Prof Akhbar Ahmed (former High Commissioner for Pakistan, and member of the Runnymede Commissions on Antisemitism & on Islamophobia), Rabbi Deborah Kahn-Harris, Dr Richard Stone (Founder/President Alif-Aleph UK and chair of Commission on Islamophobia) and Gobion Rowlands (Operation: Climate Control Producer). [ Read The Full Press Release ] |
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