PLAY FOR GOAL 12
RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

• By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.
• By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
• By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

More people globally are expected to join the middle class over the next two decades. This is good for individual prosperity but it will increase demand for already constrained natural resources. If we don’t act to change our consumption and production patterns, we will cause irreversible damage to our environment.

by Steven O’Reilly, Chelsea FC Foundation, Bangkok

Description of the game

• The footballs represent food, the cones represents obstacles, and the goal represent a community.
• The players must deliver food to the community without hitting any obstacles.
• If they hit an obstacles/cone, then they must leave the ball as ‘food waste’.
• When the game is over we can see how much food gets to the community and how much gets wasted.

by Becca Todd, United Kingdom

Description of the game

• If the global production reaches 9.6 billion by 2050 we will need plants to sustain our planets
• The farmers need to work hard to produce enough food to all the consumers and meet the demands.
• And the farmers need to take care of the food (balls) so it don’t get wasted.
• Doing kick ups represents the work needed for farming.

There are so many great ways to create a game. Allow the players to be quite creative with this by introducing the goal at the beginning of the match and asking them how this could be included:  Do one team have a big goal and the other a small. Do everybody play with a glas of water or change a rule every minute. 

A simple way to bring in the Global Goals when playing a match, is that every time a team scores or make a save, or during a water break they can double their points or get a point by stating a Global Goal and what they could do to help promote this in their community. Easiest to play small side games with 3-6 players, so they can hear each other.

You can always have several games going at the same time. There are some rule ideas under Goal 17.

If you have time, give the players a chance to talk solutions, and how they them selve can do something in their every day.

• How do you avoid food waste? What do your family do with leftovers?
• Is it possible for you do reduce waste and recycle? Can you think of a way to do more?
• How could you encourage your school/community etc. to integrate responsible consumption?
• What other global goals is supported when reaching this goal?

When you and your players create your own drills for the global goals, please share it. Every game counts.

Describe your game in a drawing (or a small video), add a few words and send it to us.

As a thank you we will share your Impact Game under the relevant Goal here on the website and of course crediting you and your team!