Frequently asked questions

Questions about Climategames 🎽

What is Climategames?

Climategames gives people a way to play their part in restoring the planet through their exercise. We connect organisations and people with positive climate projects through the power of movement and play. Our goal is to make everyone’s movement matter.
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Using our platform, every swim, cycle, run, row, workout or walk can plant trees, remove plastic from the ocean or sequester carbon from the atmosphere with one of our fully vetted environmental partners.

Organisations and individuals can host and join challenges on our App, where all attendees' activity helps to restore the planet.

Why does Climategames exist?

We want climate action to be fun, accessible, rewarding and engaging - that’s why we created Climategames..
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The climate crisis can be overwhelming, and we need everyone to play a part in helping to restore our planet. Climategames exists to give people all around the world an easy, accessible, fun and repeatable way to make their own positive impact every day. By becoming more active, not only looking after our own bodies and minds, but with Climategames, our every day exercise can also help to looking after the planet.

How can I align Climategames to my organisation or personal climate change goals?

All of our planetary projects align to the UN Sustainable Development Goals so you can build your company contribution to a global sustainability agenda with Climategames.We believe that our best chance of hitting net zero by 2050 at the latest, is through a complementary approach of deep decarbonisation of global markets, economies, businesses, lifestyles and supply chains alongside investment into nature-based projects which are restoring our planet.

The UN Race to Zero and Science Based Targets Initiative recommend that businesses take this combined approach.Some customers want to fund carbon credits through Climategames, to account for hard to abate emissions, others want to support nature-based projects for purely altruistic reasons.

Climategames works with you to find the best solution for your workforce engagement and climate goals. For individuals we have a range of subscription offers available with different amounts of monthly planetary impact, convertible each day with your exercise.

What sport can I track on Climategames?

In our App you can track your swims, runs, cycles, rowing, walks, gym workouts and steps. You don’t have to be an Olympic champion to use our App (though some do), every dog walk, step count and gym session can count.

How do I use my exercise to plant trees, remove ocean plastic or reduce pollution?

As a Climategamer, there are two ways you can convert your activity into climate action:

Take part in an online event/challenge that offers climate-action rewards (such as planting a tree). A list of these events can be found on the home page of your app:

Choose an event, complete the activity and receive a climate-action reward. These events are either private – hosted by companies for their workforce or members or public – hosted by us or our brand partners for all to take part.

Subscribe to one of our three plans, giving you control to create a environmental impact through all of your workouts. We have three plans: Green Fighter, Climate Hero and Planet Champion, prices start from £3.49 per month.

You can do both to achieve maximum impact!

Can I choose what planetary impact I want to support?

Yes absolutely!

‍For companies: you can choose the specific climate project you would like to support for each challenge in our web portal. You will need to set up a Business Account via our website to view our projects, their impacts and validation process and the Sustainable Development Goals they align to.

‍For individual subscribers: You can choose either planting trees, carbon reduction, plastic removal or a combination of all three as your focus. Please go to “settings” and press “workout offsetting target”. Our subscriptions include a combination of plastic, carbon and tree impacts. If you ‘max out’ on your selected impact focus (e.g. trees), then your exercise will flip to carbon or plastic. Your allowance renews each month.

What are events in Climategames?

Events can be in person, or virtual. They can be different challenges or leagues. Events can cover one type of exercise e.g. a walking challenge or multiple e.g. a triathlon.

Events can be for your chosen duration e.g. 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or longer.Our platform is totally customisable to you set the goals you want to achieve and the amount and type of planetary impact you want to give as a reward.
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Some examples: join a walking league for 1 kg of plastic removal, run club 5km for 5 trees, team triathlon for 1 tonne of carbon, or whole company challenges for a combined goal e.g. 50,000 km across the workforce (all types of exercise) in one month to remove 1 tonne of ocean rubbish.

As a company, at what point does my planetary impact happen?

In our business web portal, companies buy the amount of impact in trees, kg plastic or tonnes of carbon which they want to achieve. Following the purchase this then hits their ‘Account balance’.

Companies are then free to create as many events as they wish, using their purchased impact as rewards e.g. run 5km for 5 treesAs your people take part in your events and achieve their planetary rewards these will be converted from your Account balance to your Impact page (available on the App and via the web-portal). You can also simply ‘convert’ your ‘Account Balance’ into actual ‘Impact’ at any time in the web portal.

How do I track activity and connect my fitness watch / App to Climategames?

There are a few ways to track your activity with Climategames:

In the App: you can use our GPS tracking to log your activity (provided you have your phone with you during exercise), or you can manually add your workouts after the event, adding the time, distance and type of exercise you did.

Via a sports watch: we connect to most leading wearables including Garmin, Apple Watch, Fitbit, Polar, Wahoo and Suunto. Go to your Settings page in our App (cog wheel) and follow the instructions to Connect Your Device.

Via another fitness App: If you use another fitness app, like Strava, or have a wearable which isn’t on our list, we can use Apple Health or Google Fit as a ‘bridge’ to collect your data.

Connect your preferred fitness app or wearable into Apple Health or Google Fit, ensure your data is being picked up, then connect Climategames to Apple Health or Google Fit (using the Settings menu in our App) to sync your data.

How can I join an event?

If you have been invited to a private event, for example hosted by your company you should receive either an invite link, a written code or a QR code.
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Firstly, you must download the App and create your user profile, if you are taking part in Climategames for a company event we recommend using your work email address.

To join your event via a link: click on the link from your mobile to take you straight to the event page and click ‘Join’. To join your event via a written code: go to the padlock symbol in the Events page and enter the Event code, click ‘Join’.To join your event via a QR code: scan the QR code on your phone to go straight to the Event in the App, click ‘Join’.

Now begin to log the exercise stipulated by the event and watch your impact grow!

Where is Climategames available to download or launch?

Climatgames is used in 160+ countries currently and available to download everywhere, outside of mainland China due to in-countries restrictions.

We have corporate client based on every continent, with most client being based in the UK, mainland Europe, North America and Australia.

How does Climategames differ from paying to plant trees or buying carbon credits?

With Climategames you can fund planetary projects directly without exercise, but our goal is to build added value from your investment in planetary projects. By connecting exercise challenges to planet based rewards, our App seeks to engage the widest possible audience empowering them to ‘do their bit’ to help tackle the biggest challenge of our time – climate change.

We offer Climategamers a fresh motivation to move and a sense of pride and satisfaction from seeing their exercise count for the planet. By giving customers a new way to connect their employees more closely to sustainability efforts, we see real benefits in productivity, wellbeing and loyalty in return.

How does Climategames differ from other fitness tracking Apps?

With Climategames your exercise can help to support people working to protect and repair our planet all around the world today. We want people to exercise for more than just their stats or kudos (though we realise goals and encouragement are important too).

So we give you all of the things that you would expect from a fitness App, like stats, newsfeeds, maps and community engagement, but we add in planet based rewards as a new kind of motivation. Our Climategamers feel empowered by the impact they can make from their everyday exercise. Imagine the difference we could make if everyone’s movement counted towards planetary action – this is our goal.We can also connect to other fitness Apps via Apple Health and Google Fit (see the Connect page on our website).

So if you love your fitness tracking App you can stick with it but still get your planetary rewards by syncing your workouts with Climategames.

Questions about climate programs 🌳

How does Climategames choose environmental partners?

We partner with organisations who meet the highest standards of integrity. Having robust processes for measuring, tracking and reporting impact is essential to ensure the maximum benefit to planet earth from your exercise.

Many of our projects also bring important social and biodiversity co-benefits too, supporting local communities and eco-systems who often more directly suffer the effects of climate change. Our partners are experts in their fields and we have selected them, and trust them, based on their methods for impact creation, reporting and validation. Climategames’ public ledger & impact map (available on the app for everyone) shows where our ecological impact is taking place.All our projects meet international standards of validation. Our projects reducing greenhouse gas emissions are listed on public Gold Standard or Verified Carbon Standard registries.

Our plastic projects follow the international DNV Chain of Custody Standard. Our planting partners, use technology including geo-tagging, blockchain, satellite and ground level sensors to assure the additionality and permanence of their projects.

What happens if I buy trees, host an event, and the exercise from my teams doesn’t use all the trees available?

Don’t worry, you can ‘convert’ any type of planetary impact (trees, carbon, plastic) from your Account balance at any time. Once you convert your impact, Climategames secures these trees, plastic, carbon amounts with our project partners and this will hit your impact dashboard confirming the transaction.

How much of my investment goes to the climate projects?

Our goal is to build as much planetary impact as possible, so rather than charging fees to use our App and Platform, or using Adverts as a means of revenue generation, our income comes solely from an operating fee we build into our project pricing.

This fee covers our running costs, including maintaining and upgrading the Platform and App, staffing costs, development and licences, attracting new members to our community, as well as our own internal give-back scheme.

Who is checking to see if climate impact has happened?

Carbon reduction, avoidance and sequestration projects verified by Gold Standard or Verified Carbon Standard with retirements on the associated registry.
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Ocean clean up projects which meet the DNV international Chain of Custody Standard. Bring important social and biodiversity co-benefits, supporting local communities and eco-systems often more directly effected by climate change

Validate and publish data in a public impact portal or blockchain. Use remote sensor, satellite and ground level technology to monitor long term growth.

Climate projects (climategames.com)

Does having a Climategames account support animal protection and re-population projects?

Our mission is underpinned by the WWF, living planet report 2024.

Nature is disappearing: The average size of wildlife populations has fallen by a staggering 73%.

By planting trees and removing plastic waste from the ocean, the species diversity of the ecosystem will increase. There will be more habitats, a greater range of food sources and the populations of animals and plants will increase.

Through Climategames we plant a range of different trees including mangroves which are a group of trees and shrubs that live in the coastal intertidal zone. It is estimated that there are around 100 different species of mangrove trees worldwide. These forests not only provide the primary habitat for thousands of species, from green turtles, proboscis monkeys, fishing cats, to sambar deer, but also breeding and nursery grounds for many fish and invertebrate species. The rich biological diversity and highly productive nature of forests, especially mangroves, means that animals can survive more easily.

Connecting your Strava account or Smartwatch ⌚

Connect to Leading Wearables

There are a few ways to track your activity with Climategames:

In the App: you can use our GPS tracking to log your activity (provided you have your phone with you during exercise), or you can manually add your workouts after the event, adding the time, distance and type of exercise you did.

Via a sports watch: we connect to most leading wearables including Garmin, Apple Watch, Fitbit, Polar, Wahoo and Suunto.

Go to your Settings page in our App (cog wheel) and follow the instructions to Connect Your Device.

Via another fitness App: If you use another fitness app, like Strava, or have a wearable which isn’t on our list, we can use Apple Health or Google Fit as a ‘bridge’ to collect your data.

Connect your preferred fitness app or wearable into Apple Health or Google Fit, ensure your data is being picked up, then connect Climategames to Apple Health or Google Fit (using the Settings menu in our App) to sync your data.

Connect your wearable (climategames.com)

Connecting to Strava and Zwift

Our platform connects Strava and Zwift through your Apple Health Kit. This means all workouts that pull into your Apple Health App will automatically sync into the Climategames platform. This will include all your walks, rides, swims or run data.

There are two steps involved;

‍Firstly, make sure you have connected your Strava account and the Apple Health App. To do this:

‍On the Strava mobile app, open your settings from the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of the Home, Groups, or You tab. Select Applications, Services, and Devices > Health > Select the plus sign icon.

Tap Connect on the next screen.

You'll be taken to the Health Access page where you can enable the sharing of data from Strava to Health. You can control which types of information Strava will read and write to Health.You must enable Workouts for the sharing of any data (cycling, running, calories, etc.) to work. After the initial setup, you can modify Strava's Health Access by going into the Health app and clicking on Sources > Strava.

Second Step, Health to Climategames:Within the Climategames App on the profile page, select the settings “cog” next to your notificationsGo down to “Training” and select “Connect Device”Once there, you can turn on your Apple Health Kit by pressing “Apple Watch”. You must enable Workouts for the sharing of any data (cycling, running, calories, etc.) to work. Health to Climategames will have now started.