My Sustainable Living Challenge- 2024 Edition

United Nations 2 years ago

Join 'My Sustainable Living Challenge' in its 2024 Edition and discover a fun and engaging online platform designed to help students learn about sustainability. ‘My Sustainable Living Challenge’  is an online gamified learning platform that provides a six-week interactive journey, offering valuable knowledge on the key sectors of sustainable living such as food, housing, and transportation. It is a journey in an immersive environment where a person can learn about sustainability, system change, the impact of your lifestyle, how to make better choices – in a FUN, interactive setting. Participants answer curated questions and engage in sustainable actions. Progress is tracked through the ‘treemagotchi’. For every question answered correctly and action that is shared, participants see how their tree grow and flourish, ‘nurtured’ by their intention to change. The platform is globally accessible and available in four languages: English, Spanish, French and Russian.  The 2024 Edition invites schools, organizations and communities to create teams and represent their campuses. Progress and achievements will be shared with teammates, the other contestants and through social media creating a sense of community and inspiring others to also take action. Over the course of six weeks, teams will compete with each other, earning points for their progress and innovation. Participants will be motivated to take actions that contribute to a more sustainable future, and encouraged to leverage their social media presence to increase the reach of their sustainable practices. The team with the most points earned will be announced as the champions of the challenge. When: The 2024 Global Edition of ‘My Sustainable Living Challenge’ will launch on World Environment Day (5 June) with a webinar presenting the Challenge. The game will run for 6 weeks starting on 19 August. What to do: Recruit a team of up to 10 members of the same university, college, institution, community. Register them on the UNSSC website. Teams are up to 10 members. Each institution can register up to 2 teams. Compete with other schools and represent your school spirit starting August 19!   Partners United Nations Systems Staff College (UNSSC) Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development (GO4SDGs) UNEP Sustainable Lifestyles team
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Water scarcity has become a core concern for sustainable construction and sustainable building design, with the United Nations warning of potential global water bankruptcy and heightened risk to desalination plants in the Gulf. The construction sector is shifting towards diversified water systems that embed efficiency, reuse, and resilience. These changes align with whole life carbon and lifecycle assessment principles, ensuring environmental sustainability in construction through resource efficiency in construction and life cycle cost analysis. In the UK, stronger regulation following pollution incidents is driving utilities to invest in cleaner networks and green infrastructure, creating new pipelines of low carbon construction materials and sustainable building practices.

Digital manufacturing is transforming eco-friendly construction through AI-driven tools that automate complex formwork and optimise material use. By integrating eco-design for buildings and low carbon design methodologies, contractors reduce embodied carbon in materials and the overall carbon footprint of construction. This digital precision supports net zero whole life carbon strategies and demonstrates how circular construction strategies underpin a circular economy in construction.

Energy security and climate risk are reinforcing the need for carbon neutral construction and renewable building materials. Projects optimised for energy-efficient buildings and net zero carbon buildings are proving more resilient, cost-stable, and aligned with whole life carbon assessment frameworks. The industry trajectory favours sustainable material specification, end-of-life reuse in construction, and decarbonising the built environment through lifecycle performance and life cycle thinking in construction. Firms advancing sustainable design founded on building lifecycle performance and resource efficiency will lower embodied carbon while improving long-term asset resilience, delivering measurable reductions in the environmental impact of construction.

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