Words into Action 2011 - Report Back
The World Federation of Engineering Organizations Committee on Engineering and the Environment thanks everyone who participated in the special sessions on adaptation and mitigation for engineers at the World Engineering Convention, 14:00-18:00, Tuesday, 6 September 2011, Centre International de Conférences Genève, Room 5-6, Geneva.
This web page shares summaries of the sessions by audio, visual and text.
For a full summary report click here.
For graphic recordings and audio recordings, please scroll through the agenda below.
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14:00-14:30 |
Opening Keynote: David Nickols, Chair, Expert Panel for Water at the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK
Climate proofing the World’s infrastructure: The role of engineering Download presentation slides (PDF)
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14:30-15:45 |
Panel 1: Assessing the Risks to Public Infrastructure Panellists: Freddy Bolaños, Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica and Heather Auld, Environment Canada
Assessing Public Infrastructure Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Central American perspective. Download presentation slides (PDF) Assessing risk is a key step in infrastructure planning. This talk puts this in the context of climate change, the role of engineers and ensuring resiliency.
Bridging the gap between climate change data and infrastructure risk assessments Download presentation slides (PDF) Climate change challenges require applying climate data to engineering problems. Working across professional silos to understand how weather will impact key infrastructure is the first step.
Discussion
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15:45-16:15 |
Official Convention Break Coffee available outside room and session speakers available for discussion.
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16:15-17:30 |
Panel 2: Engineering Solutions for GHG Reduction Panellists: Frida Frost, Danish Society of Engineers and Alison Cooke, Cambridge University
5 ways to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Download presentation slides (PDF) Learn about the how GHG emissions can be reduced substantially, and how a sustainable path of development can be reached based on the experience of 13 Engineering Associations from around the world. Findings are based on ‘Future Climate - Engineering Solutions’.
Get Started on a Country Report: Process and Funding Advice Download presentation slides (PDF) Practical examples from countries that participated in ‘Future Climate – Engineering Solutions’. Guidance on funding will be provided as well as key steps for starting a country report.
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17:30-18:00 |
Closing Keynote: Mark Smith, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Nature as infrastructure Download presentation slides (PDF)
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David Nickols has 30 years of experience in water and energy. He has global experience covering five continents, largely on the planning, engineering and construction of major water and energy sector projects for government, municipal and private sector utility clients. He is a Chartered Engineer in the UK and a licensed Professional Engineer in New York State, and has a M.A. in engineering from Cambridge University. He is currently Managing Director, WSP Future Energy, and in his role as Chair of the UK-based Institution of Civil Engineers Expert Panel for Water led the water sector section of Engineering the Future’s 2011 report to UK government Infrastructure, Engineering and Climate Change Adaptation – ensuring services in an uncertain future.
Freddy graduated with a Licenciatura Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Costa Rica in 1996. (This study program obtained and has sustained the Substantial Equivalency according to the Canadian Accreditation Board Guidelines). Afterwards, he graduated with a Master in Science Degree in Sanitary Engineering from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (Former International Institute for Infrastructure, Transport, Hydraulic, Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Delft, The Netherlands) in 1999.
Heather Auld has served over 32 years with Environment Canada as an engineering climatologist, weather forecaster, meteorology instructor, manager and climate change expert. Over the past two decades, Heather has developed climatic design values and climate change guidance for Canadian building codes and standards. She has provided expert witness testimony to numerous disaster inquiries involving weather and infrastructure failures. Heather is involved in several international activities, including World Meteorological Organization Expert Teams on hazards and energy, as lead author of a Special IPCC Report on Extremes and Climate Change and participant on Canadian delegations to the UN biodiversity convention.
Frida Frost (M.Sc.Eng) is the president of the Danish Society of Engineers (IDA). IDA has more than 83.000 members, and represents the interests of employees, managers and the self-employed within the fields of pay and employment, the labor market, industrial policy, skills, careers and training, the working environment, technology and research.
Alison is currently leading a multidisciplinary team of researchers at Cambridge University, investigating energy efficiency in the built environment.
Mark Smith is the Director of the IUCN Global Water Programme. He leads IUCN&rsquouo;s work on water, environment and development at global level and provides strategic leadership for IUCN on water policy in major international forums. He coordinates IUCN’s flagship Water and Nature Initiative, which works through regional IUCN teams in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania on developing, testing and promoting innovative, integrated solutions to water problems.
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