With worldwide demand for energy growing rapidly, resources finite and the environmental impacts increasingly apparent, how we produce and consume energy is one of the most important issues facing society.
With tens of thousands of members working in the energy sector, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers is at the heart of the debate. Learn more about the Energy Theme.
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Mechanical engineers are at the forefront of energy production. Learn more about current and future energy production.
Copenhagen: Our focus for 2009
With the United Nations Copenhagen Conference set for December 2009, where the global community will try to agree a follow up to the Kyoto protocol, we are looking for Regions, Areas, YM Panels, etc to organise a series of debate-style events in the first half of this year, or adapt their existing events slightly to meet the same objectives. The output from these events will be used to inform IMechE policy/lobbying activity and provide the UK input to a pan-European initiative to submit an engineering viewpoint to the main Copenhagen Conference. Help with speakers, facilitators, funding, etc can be provided. Further details here.
As a pre-cursor to the UN Copenhagen Conference, IMechE was represented at an important conference and workshop in September 2008. This exciting project, Future Climate - Engineering Solutions, enabled engineering institutions from around the world to join together with practical, deliverable plans addressing the energy, environment and transport challenges of climate change, as their contribution to the main Copenhagen Conference in December this year.
The Institution is the UK representative for the Future Climate project. We will be encouraging our members to get involved in preparing a UK Action Plan, and posting regular updates about the project throughout the year.
If you wish to register your interest in Future Climate, please email energy@imeche.org.
For further details about Future Climate
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