The games industry, with its boundless creativity, its constantly evolving interaction with technology and its ability to reach and inspire a global audience of billions is well equipped to start tackling the challenge of climate change.

How can my games business take action?

With the impact of climate change already being felt, there is a clear need for urgent action at a business and collective sector level.

We hope that our Green Games Guide can help games businesses to take steps to:

Our Green Games Guide outlines how to address these aims including a five step process, created with Playing for the Planet and others, for how games businesses can reduce their impact on the planet:

1. Define your scope and timeline to reduce your carbon footprint

2. Calculate your emissions

3. Take bold and ambitious action to reduce your carbon footprint

4. When it’s impossible to avoid, hit the offset button

5. Ratchet, review and recommend to others