The Global Apollo Program is a concept spearheaded by Sir David King in 2015 to call on wealthy nations to commit to spending 0.02% of their gross domestic product (GDP) for 10 years to fund coordinated research on ending the climate emergency. 

The program is modeled on the US program to put a person on the moon, which required a similar large-scale coordination of thousands of scientists and engineers across the country. The publicly funded research would seek to make clean energy cheaper than fossil fuels, which the creators of the program believe would lead the world to cease using fossil fuels. By scaling funding as a percentage of GDP, the program also aims for the countries most responsible for causing the climate emergency to massively invest in solutions that the entire world can use. The program was endorsed by many high profile scientific, business, and public policy leaders including Sir David Attenborough, the CEO of Unilever, and the CEO of the Climate Group.

Some countries already spend this amount on climate action research, but many do not. There is no formal structure in place to establish this scheme or hold members accountable to achieving its goals. It’s also not guaranteed that this amount of investment would secure the changes we need to tackle the climate emergency. However, the program is a useful reminder and call to action for rapid, large-scale research to transition away from fossil fuels.

To activate this Global Project, players need to tuck Local Project cards from their hands under this card. The requirement is 1 Regulation tags in a Solo or 2-player game, or 2 Regulation tags in a 3-player or 4-player game.

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Global Apollo programme seeks to make clean energy cheaper than coal (The Guardian)