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
"meta_title": "Sustainable construction pivots to resilience",
"meta_description": "Flood defences, resilience economics and biodiversity carve-outs are reshaping sustainable construction around utility, risk and returns.",
"digest_text": "Climate resilience is becoming the most bankable expression of sustainable construction. The Environment Agency's delivery of flood protection for 62,000 properties, beating its target by 10,000, shows where public spending is moving: towards asset protection that can be counted, priced and defended. LSE's triple dividend case for adaptation reinforces that shift, giving clients a language of life cycle cost, building lifecycle performance and wider economic return rather than moral obligation alone.\n\nThat matters for sustainable building design. A market focused on risk will still talk about whole life carbon, embodied carbon and a whole life carbon assessment, yet the immediate winners are likely to be projects that combine resilience with low carbon design, energy-efficient buildings and credible lifecycle assessment. In practice, environmental sustainability in construction is being judged less by abstract ambition than by whether a scheme can protect value, cut exposure and support delivery.\n\nThe political signal is sharper in the Biodiversity Net Gain exemption for schemes below 0.2 hectares. Ministers are not abandoning sustainable design, eco-design for buildings or the circular economy, nor are they stepping away from net zero carbon buildings, net zero whole life carbon or BREEAM and BREEAM v7 benchmarks. They are revealing a hierarchy. Measures with a clear commercial or safety case are advancing faster than rules seen as friction.\n\nFor developers, contractors and specifiers, the lesson is clear. The next wave of work will favour low carbon building strategies that pair flood resilience with low carbon construction materials, embodied carbon in materials scrutiny and circular economy in construction. Sustainable construction is not narrowing; it is hardening around evidence, utility and returns."
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