Deadline: 2-Feb-22
Applications are now open for the Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 11.
To enhance sustainable urbanization, they need to look at the buildings and infrastructure that make up cities. By adopting a low-carbon and circular approach throughout the entire built environment’s life cycle, from materials production to construction, and from operation to the demolition phase, cities can become catalysts to contain climate change. New smart-designs for cities can even make them carbon negative. Building greener cities also means adopting nature-based solutions to promote sustainable lifestyles, improve wellbeing and tackle challenges, such as air pollution, rising temperatures, flood risk and biodiversity loss. To ensure sustainable urbanization, they need to reduce cities’ adverse environmental impact by switching to a circular economy approach and by decoupling growth from the consumption of finite resources, reducing the use of materials, keeping materials in use as long as possible and recycling waste.
At Holcim, climate action is at the core of their strategy. They are working on four critical growth levers to accelerate the transition to net zero. Holcim is proud to support the Lead 2030 Challenge for SDG 11.
Aims
This Challenge aims to find and support solutions that make cities greener by pushing the boundaries of sustainable construction and urbanization. The challenge welcomes solutions from young innovators that:
- Deploy innovative and sustainable building materials and solutions that are affordable and scalable to enable low-carbon, circular, carbon neutral and even carbon negative cities.
- Increase access to sustainable infrastructure, from green mobility to green energy.
- Promotes sustainable lifestyles connecting nature and cities.
- Drive circular economy approaches to enable more recycling.
Prize Details
The winning solution will receive:
- Sponsorship to participate in the One Young World Summit 2022 in Tokyo from 16 to 19 May
- A US$50,000 grant from Holcim
- 12 months of mentorship from a team of Holcim professionals. The mentorship team will work to accelerate your solution based on the needs of your initiative or organisation, such as:
- Business strategy
- Best practices for data collection
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Product design
Criteria
- Aligned: Evidently aligned with the Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 11 supported by Holcim.
- Youth-led: Founded by a person aged 18 – 30.
- Focused: Well-structured time horizon, identified key stakeholders and beneficiaries, and proposed outcomes that are reasonable and well thought out.
- Market ready: Product/service already in market or ready to go to market.
- Impactful: Solutions must have a positive social impact, for example generating employment, or developing skills.
- Measurable: Impacts of solutions must have been adequately measured and/or be measurable.
- Financially viable: Must be able to achieve efficiency and to survive independently through the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
- Scalable: Potential to perform as well or better after expanding in scope or size and/or being transported to other regions.
For more information, visit https://www.oneyoungworld.com/lead2030/21-22/challenge-sdg11-holcim