The 4 Key Themes of the Institution provide a way to focus a range of our activities on issues that are seen to be important to both the mechanical engineering profession and wider society. They allow us to bring together resources from across the Institution to contribute to contemporary debate, as well as set future public agendas and provide thought leadership on emerging topics.
The environment theme is continuously evolving with input from a wide range of stakeholders, including our members, Officers of the Institution, our peers and partners. The core principle to development of the theme is that topics should be of relevance to the mechanical engineering profession and that the profession itself should have relevance to them.
The theme is currently concerned with the following issues:
- minimising pollution, waste and other environmental impacts of mechanical engineering technology.
- recognising that the world's resources are limited and we need to use them more efficiently.
- modification of mechanical systems and machines to cope with a changing climate.
- recognition that there are other solutions to global warming in addition to that of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Institution's thoughts, policies and projects on aspects of these issues can be found in the accompanying pages.
Click here for the environment theme position statement which contains the key messages of the theme.
Click here for the position statement on sustainable development.
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