Articles Tagged with ''global warming''

Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program is supporting the ambitious SE 2050 Challenge, which states that “all structural engineers shall understand, reduce and ultimately eliminate embodied carbon in their projects by 2050.” 

The Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program is trying to identify best practices to reduce embodied carbon in building structures.

China announced last week at the United Nation’s 75^th General Assembly and first virtual General Debate that it will scale up its climate commitment with the aim of peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060. The meeting coincided with the virtual Climate Week NYC 2020.

Experts say mitigation and adaptation must go hand in hand to address climate change

Faced with new climate-related threats and changes every day, it’s time to present a new, environmental version of Pascal’s wager.

Unless nations quickly muster the political and social will to engineer an emissions-free industrial system, the impacts of a warming planet are likely to be so great as to cause human civilization to collapse by 2050. 

Our industry can no longer look the other way at the impacts of climate change.

More than a year after the Trump Administration withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, cities and states are continuing efforts to meet U.S. climate goals to reduce carbon emissions 26% by 2025.

A study from the universities of Wisconsin and Oregon used GIS to show network infrastructure could be underwater in as little as 15 years.