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On December 8, 2015, at COP-21 in Paris, France, the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) issued a statement in which they agreed to help combat climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate disasters.

On December 8, 2015, at COP-21 in Paris, France, the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) issued a statement in which they agreed to help combat climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate disasters.

The statement was signed during the one-day WFEO COP-21 Engineering Summit on Climate Change hosted by Engineers Canada and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). The overall theme for the Summit was "Engineering: Turning Words into Action—A Sectoral Approach."

WFEO consists of national members representing 85 countries as well as 10 regional engineering organizations that represent more than 20 million engineers worldwide.

You can read the engineering profession’s commitment to combating climate change below:

We will engage through the implementation of innovative technologies and cost-effective, feasible solutions based on sound engineering criteria and scientifically defensible climate projections. These actions will aim to reduce the rate and magnitude of climate change as well as address its inevitable impacts on society and its quality of life. These actions will contribute to achieving a great number of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and their associated targets.

The WFEO and its national and international members commit to the following outcomes:

  1. Reducing GHG emissions within and across sectors through regionally and locally based actions.
  2. Improving the climate resilience of various types of infrastructure to resist climate impacts and increase reliability and service life in an era of changing climate and more extreme weather events.
  3. Achieving the engineering challenges of sustainable development and meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which are inseparable.
  4. Supporting the COP-21Climate Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with innovative engineering practices and technologies.
  5. Building engineering capacity and gender balance worldwide to address the implementation of the COP-21consensus

The complete statement can be read on the WFEO website.