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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BloombergNEF’s new estimate that the UK, EU and Norway must mobilise about $1.3 trillion a year raises the stakes for the built environment. Mass retrofit, electrified heat and grid upgrades now need to deliver net zero whole life carbon and net zero carbon buildings, guided by whole life carbon assessment, lifecycle assessment and clear targets for whole life carbon, embodied carbon and the carbon footprint of construction. Investment choices should be rooted in life cycle cost, building lifecycle performance and resource efficiency in construction, aligning sustainable building design, sustainable design and eco-design for buildings with practical delivery at scale.

The UK move to end support for small‑scale biomass after Renewables Obligation contracts shifts the centre of gravity for heat to energy‑efficient buildings, heat pumps and cleaner networks. Low carbon design and low carbon building retrofit will depend on sustainable material specification, low carbon construction materials and low embodied carbon materials, evidenced through environmental product declarations (epds). Clients are turning to breeam and breeam v7 to benchmark environmental sustainability in construction and to procure green building materials and green building products that meet net zero carbon goals.

A deep underground nuclear reactor proposal in the US clearing a federal safety hurdle signals potential for compact, reliable clean power to de‑risk electrification for energy‑intensive construction sites and materials producers when variable renewable generation is constrained. Such baseload can support decarbonising the built environment, carbon neutral construction and circular economy in construction by enabling recycling, end-of-life reuse in construction and low-impact construction at scale, while addressing embodied carbon in materials.

Slow, uneven rebuilding in the Himalayas after last year’s glacial disaster underlines that resilience is underfunded. Firms working in high‑risk terrain need risk‑informed design, community engagement and adaptable finance embedded in sustainable architecture, green construction and green infrastructure. Life cycle thinking in construction, carbon footprint reduction and rigorous management of the environmental impact of construction must be planned from the outset to support the circular economy and eco‑friendly construction.

With housing output shrinking again, counter‑cyclical public investment is needed to keep the green upgrade pipeline moving. Procurement that rewards circular construction strategies, sustainable construction and sustainable urban development—bundling retrofit with new, renewable heat‑ready projects—can stabilise supply chains and skills while accelerating carbon footprint reduction and sustainability across building and construction.

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