WFEO YEFL Committee Webinar #2 "Engineering the Future – Climate action"

The WFEO Committee on Young Engineers / Future Leaders organised the webinar series Engineering the Future #2 Climate action on Monday 12 October 2020.

Speakers, representing different levers – engineering, technology, finance, governance, collective action – discussed the key challenges, opportunities and the role of new technologies, innovative engineering in reaching climate neutrality. Aim was to share the knowledge and inspire young engineers from Africa, Americas, Middle East, Asia / Pacific, Europe to proactively contribute to the SDG 13 Climate Action.

This series of webinars seek to highlight the role of engineering design and systems-based approaches in risks identification, mitigation, and reduction, as well as recovery. It will highlight the key challenges to address and opportunities for better engineering systems across multiple sectors.

00:00 Moderator: Milda Pladaitė, Member, WFEO Committee on Young Engineers / Future Leaders

Speakers for this second episode were:

1:02 Dr. Marlene Kanga, 2017 - 2019 President, World Federation of Engineering Organizations

17:05 Davide Stronati, Chair, WFEO Committee on Engineering and the Environment

27:50 Bert D’Hooghe – Policy Director at the European Round Table for Industry (ERT)

41:33 Sara Nyberg – Junior Consultant Corporate Sustainability (at South Pole) – Children and Youth constituency to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – YOUNGO (UNFCCC) Representative

55:04 Vane Aminga – Research Assistant, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – SIPRI

1:16:33 Firas Bou Diab, Chair, WFEO Committee on Young Engineers / Future Leaders

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