How to set global environment variables using shell script .sh

Question

I have a .sh file that locally sets some environment variables in my shell source my_env.sh.

#!/bin/sh
echo \"Setting up local env         


        

Answer 1

According to Ubuntu env variables doc the best way would be

A suitable file for environment variable settings that affect the system as a whole (rather than just a particular user) is /etc/environment

That's assuming you don't mind having them set for the whole machine.