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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The latest developments in sustainable construction indicate that carbon management is becoming integral to building performance and supply chain resilience. The installation of Europe’s largest vanadium flow battery in East Sussex signals growing investment in grid‑scale energy storage systems designed to reduce the carbon footprint of construction and support energy‑efficient buildings. Integrating renewable building materials and low carbon construction materials with large‑scale energy storage reflects a clear shift toward whole life carbon assessment and lifecycle assessment approaches that underpin low carbon design and net zero carbon buildings. This alignment of technology and policy demonstrates environmental sustainability in construction moving beyond experimental stages into scalable models of eco‑friendly construction.

Essity’s £30 million recycled fibre facility in Northumberland highlights how circular economy initiatives are embedding life cycle thinking in construction. These circular construction strategies and resource efficiency in construction initiatives reinforce the circular economy in construction, promoting end‑of‑life reuse in construction and enabling sustainable material specification. By prioritising low embodied carbon materials and eco‑design for buildings, the sector is aligning with BREEAM and BREEAM v7 standards that measure whole life carbon performance and environmental impact of construction across the supply chain.

The industry now recognises that decarbonising the built environment depends on integrating energy systems, low carbon building materials, and data‑led whole life carbon methodologies. Reducing embodied carbon in materials and improving building lifecycle performance are transforming sustainable building design from policy aspiration into commercial practice. Green construction and sustainable building practices are becoming the foundation of sustainable urban development, where the net zero whole life carbon target defines both environmental sustainability and long‑term life cycle cost efficiency. Green building materials, green infrastructure and carbon neutral construction are driving this transition toward a credible, scalable model of sustainable design and carbon footprint reduction that aligns innovation with global sustainability goals.

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