LEGO Provides ‘Building Instructions for a Better World‘ for COP26
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The LEGO Group asked over 6,000 children what instructions they would give to world leaders to help tackle the climate crisis. The result is ten Building Instructions for a Better World, which will be presented at COP26 (UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties). These building instructions follow the style we all know and love from LEGO sets. The LEGO Group is helping to give children a larger voice to help address climate change.
At COP26, world leaders will gather in Glasgow to address how to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The LEGO Group will present these building instructions to leaders at this event. One of the goals of the LEGO building instructions is to remind policy makers to remember children, who are the next generation, in their decision making.
We have joined forces with young people across the globe to develop the Building Instructions for a Better World, giving children a voice and making sure their voice is heard by world leaders during COP26 – one of the most important climate summits of our time.
– Tim Brooks, VP of Environmental Responsibility at the LEGO Group
Building Instructions for a Better World
The Building Instructions for a Better World include the following:
- Reduce pollution and waste.
- Protect nature
- Change laws.
- Stop ignoring the problem: do more.
- Educate people.
- Reduce emissions.
- Cooperate internationally.
- Leaders, change your own behavior.
- Invest in the environment.
- Help people and future generations.
Check out the full LEGO instructions below.
These instructions are part of the LEGO Group’s ‘Build the Change‘ program. Additionally, they will be hosting workshops to discuss learning through play and biodiversity challenges.
Overall, the building instructions are a part of the LEGO Group’s effort and commitment to improve sustainability. These efforts include:
- Phasing-in of paper bags in packaging by early 2022.
- Creating a prototype recycled LEGO brick.
- LEGO Replay – a program to donate and recycle old bricks.
- Partnership with Volvo to create the first prototype electric construction vehicle from a LEGO Technic set.
We are so glad that the LEGO Group is giving children of the world a greater voice at COP26. We hope that the current world leaders and decision makers listen to what they have to say to create a better world for the future leaders of tomorrow.
