Ages 14 to 18 · By application
Your child, as CEO of a real climate venture.
Two days. Fifty simulated years. Five teams, one investment panel.
Apply free. Pay only if selected.
Designed by former leaders at
1 / Your child’s two days
A two-day business simulation, built on a real climate project.
A team of five. Your child takes a seat and runs a real climate venture for fifty simulated years.
One decade as CEO. Five rounds, one each. The decisions, the trade-offs, the consequences.
One investment panel. On day two, five teams pitch. One wins the business.
02Days
50Years
05Rounds
25Per cohort
What your child will be able to say
“I was selected to lead a multi-million-dollar climate project. I made the investment decisions, competed against four other teams, and pitched to an investment panel.”
2 / The project they runExplore Project Baghbaan ↗
This place is real. Project Baghbaan, South Punjab.
USD 15MnTotal project cost
5,000 haPhase 1 land
USD 100Mn+Lifetime revenue, modelled
3 / The decisions they make
This is Hira. Chief Resilience Officer, CEO in round 3. Make her three decisions, then see what she did.
Her seat. Five seats on every team. Hira took Chief Resilience Officer.
Her screen as CEO. The forest on the map, the team's five seats, and the next decision with its options. Every decision below was made on a screen like this.Decision 1 · Year 15
A buyer wants the forest's future income.
Finish the three decisions to see your seat, what Hira did, and the panel's verdict.
4 / What they keep
Proof of what she did, in her own name.
Signed by the founders. Former McKinsey & Company and Accenture leaders.
Verifiable. An ID universities can check with us.
Baghbaan Distinction. Top ten percent each year, across all schools.
UN SDGs 13, 15, 8 and 1. Climate action, life on land, decent work, no poverty.
6 of 10When she disagreed with her team, her option did better. From her Mission Compass.
5 / Their university story
The question every applicant faces. Now your child has a story no one else can tell.
What Hira could say · UCAS, question 3 of 3
What else have you done to prepare outside of education, and why are these experiences useful?
Last year I was selected, with four other students, to run a real climate business for two days.…
The same story works for Common App and interviews.6 / Apply for Mission 01
Run by the team behind Project Baghbaan.
Talha KhanFounder and CEOFormer McKinsey leader, LBS alumnus
Inamullah MianCo-founderFormer Accenture leader
Ahmad RafiqProject OperationsMobilink alumnus
Rehman YousufProduct DeveloperSabancı University alumnus
Zainab FaridProduct AssociateUSAID and Clark University alumnus
Kazeem KhanSenior AdviserSr leader at Shell
Simon ScottInvestment SpecialistInvestor in energy companies
SubayyalCommercial HeadPackages Group alumnus
Wika WulandariResearch AssociateUniversity of Auckland alumnusWhere our team is
Five countries, one team. The project is in Pakistan. The students can be anywhere.
Where our team has worked and studied
01Apply free. Three short questions, 15 minutes.
02We read every answer. Selected for how they think, not for grades.
03£200, only if selected. Dates and venue come with the offer.
Will this clash with exams?
No. Dates are set around the school calendar.
Does my child need to know about climate?
No. No pre-work, no prior knowledge.
What if my child is not selected?
They join the waiting list and hear first when a place or the next cohort opens.
The real world doesn't give you a practice run. We do.
Carbon Craft UK · Climate Business Immersion · info@thecarboncraft.com · The decisions are simulated. The project is real.