E3G

The Engineering response to Climate Change

By Nick Mabey

The power sector will have a major role to play in the effort to reduce carbon emissions, with the potential of new technologies often foremost in discussions of the subject.

But it is not just innovations in new technologies that need to be considered. Also important are the investment and institutions that shape the emerging technology pathways.

In particular, intellectual property rights, technical standards and technology cooperation will be key factors that help or hinder the development of new solutions.

This was the message that E3G Chief Executive Nick Mabey gave last week to a seminar organised by the Engineering Project Management Forum.

The seminar was the subject of a webcast by IET.TV – the online video service from the Institute of Engineering and Technology.




Nick concluded his presentation by setting out how the engineering professions can harness their knowledge in pursuit of 4 critical areas:

Project management of carbon policies

Making innovation and investment considerations central to policy design

Building technological and management capacity to drive new business models, system changes and public investment

Developing adaptation capacity and response models

The webcast of Nick’s presentation ‘The engineering response to climate change: the international dimension’ is now online, and can be viewed via the link below - you will need to enable popup windows.

A copy of Nick’s presentation is attached here for download in pdf format.