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 structural constraint for sustainable construction, shifting design priorities from short-term resilience to long-term performance defined by hydrology, topography and the carbon footprint of construction. Regions confronting drought are embedding sustainable building design principles that align growth with ecological capacity, using whole life carbon assessment and life cycle cost modelling to reduce exposure to resource volatility. Developers advancing sustainable urban development are moving beyond symbolic sustainability toward measurable outcomes verified through lifecycle assessment and BREEAM standards.

In high‑risk geographies such as India’s landslide‑affected regions, failure to address environmental triggers undermines both asset value and community safety. Integrating green infrastructure and eco‑design for buildings reduces embodied carbon in materials while improving building lifecycle performance and post‑disaster resilience. Local stewardship plays a decisive role in maintaining environmental sustainability in construction, ensuring that restoration, maintenance and reuse are grounded in circular economy principles.

Markets with fragmented energy policy present uneven progress toward net zero carbon buildings. Forward‑looking clients are adopting low carbon design and low carbon building materials to outperform regional grids and futureproof assets against policy shifts. Redevelopment schemes, including large‑scale campus projects, demonstrate how life cycle thinking in construction and circular construction strategies deliver measurable reductions in embodied carbon and operational energy demand.

Housing innovators are proving that climate performance, affordability and low-impact construction can co‑exist. Embedding sustainable building practices, end‑of-life reuse in construction and the use of renewable building materials supports both whole life carbon reduction and durable community growth. The next generation of eco‑friendly construction treats resilience not as an aesthetic feature but as the organising principle of decarbonising the built environment. Those still equating sustainability with presentation risk obsolescence as environmental and political realities set the true brief for net zero whole life carbon outcomes.

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