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Sydney Water serves more than five million customers every day using a water and wastewater network of more than 47,000 km in total length.

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference that concluded in Glasgow last week calling on all nations to strengthen their emissions reduction targets by 2030, the coming ten years will be critical to global efforts to prevent catastrophic global warming.

It’s one thing to discuss the effects of climate change on the engineering sector, but to truly understand an issue it’s better to see it in action.

Yesterday, Paul Polman explained how a lack of good leaders was stifling efforts to address climate change. Today, Fiona Cousins, Director at Arup, showed attendees at Engineers Australia’s Climate Smart Engineering conference how they can become the leaders we need.

COP26 has been effective in achieving some sectorial and economy wide pledges, bringing together government, industry and community leaders from close to 200 countries.

Investors want to be climate friendly, and engineers can show them how. 

It was 2.30 am in Dubai when Paul Poleman, Co-Founder and Chair of IMAGINE and United Nations SDG Advocate, delivered an alarming wake up call for attendees of Engineers Australia’s CSE conference.

As Emilio Granados Franco looks at the problems facing the world, environmental concerns stand out for their likelihood of occurring as well as their potential severity.

Despite acknowledging the seriousness of the climate challenge, Former US Vice President Al Gore’s keynote address was optimistic, saying the world is in the early stages of a sustainability revolution.