Climate Action Challenge (UN SDG 13)

 Design a product, service or initiative that empowers individuals and communities to take action on climate change.

Dealing with climate change is perhaps the most urgent of all the Sustainable Development Goals. The Global Goals all address serious threats to humanity, but the clock is ticking on SDG 13 — and if the world doesn’t take action to fight climate change and its impacts soon, the results of our inaction could be catastrophic.

The Climate Action Challenge asks you to think big about ways that individuals or communities can take action.

Taking measures to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions is absolutely critical. However, communities also need to take action in other ways, including anticipating the impacts of climate change and preparing to respond, as well as improving resilience and our ability to adapt.

Your innovative idea could be a product or service that helps us reduce our carbon footprint or makes us better prepared to deal with the impacts of climate change. Or, it could be an initiative — such as a public information/awareness campaign aimed at changing the behavior of individuals and families or something like a task force or coalition focused on promoting collaborative action in neighborhoods, cities, states, or nations.

One way to start brainstorming is to consider who your “customer” would be or what particular “need” you want to solve.

Here are some thought-starters:

• Do you want to focus on your own family, friends and neighbors or are you more concerned about another community?
• Do you want to help fight the causes of climate change or help people deal with the impacts?
• Are you interested in how a particular industry might be impacted? Say, for example, transportation, agriculture or manufacturing?
• Are you interested in how different geographic regions might be impacted? Do you think the greatest impact will be in urban areas or rural communities? In coastal areas or deserts?
• Are you more concerned about impacts that will change the way of life in developed nations or more interested in the impact on developing nations?

 

How to compete:

Step 1: Pick a challenge – Which of the challenges gets your brain ticking and your creativity flowing?

Step 2: Brainstorm – Click Get Started to register, then start the rapid ideation! Set a timer and come up with as many ideas as you can in short order. Pick the best one to submit. You can ask a teacher or coach to help you brainstorm, but the idea you ultimately submit should be your own original work.

Step 3: Click Get Started to log in to your competition dashboard then fill out the online entry form, describing your idea and how it works. Submit whenever you’re ready. You can do it all in one session or save your work and come back later to finish. Just be sure to submit by the December 16 deadline!

 

*Register online at www.flairworks.org/flairfest01

*For more details on the challenges visit our website.

 

Hold onto your hats. It’s time to start brainstorming! Now’s the time to go big and bold with your ideas and get wildly creative.

The heat is on! The judges are breaking out the scorecards and the popcorn.

A select group of final-round judges watches all the one-minute videos submitted by finalists, scores them, then winners are determined for each challenge based on cumulative total scores. Winners announced March 18.

 

Who can compete?

 

YOUNG PEOPLE 13–24

Anyone between the ages of 13 and 24 is eligible to compete, and you can nominate any young innovators you know so they get a special invitation!

TEAMS OF 1, 2 OR 3

Sign up to compete solo (as a mighty team of one!) or invite a friend or two to join you. Teams of one, two or three people are welcome to compete.

Three prizes awarded for each challenge category:

 

The top scoring idea in each category receives a cash prize of Rs.10000. The next two highest scoring ideas in a challenge category each receive a $300 cash prize.

 

Registration fee for entering the competition is Rs. 1500.

 

Every one receive a Certificate of Achivement, Starter toolkit and build entrepreneurial profile.