Working Group on Engineering and Climate Change (WGCC)
The Working Group on Engineering and Climate Change is proposed by the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK). This will take over the work on climate change themes covering SDG 13 (Climate action) from the WFEO Committee on Engineering and the Environment.
The Institution of Civil Engineers UK (ICE) serves as the host of the Working Group on Engineering and Climate Change from 2025 to 2027.
Role / Purpose
The purpose of the Working Group on Engineering and Climate Change is to provide a focus of activities relating to the issue of Climate Change and in particular to advance the UN Sustainable Goal No. 13 (Climate action).
This group was proposed and approved by the WFEO Executive Board in the Madrid meeting on March 1st, 2023. The WG’s role is designed as a transverse one, coordinating and helping to harmonise all the work being done by various WFEO STCs and WGs with relation to climate change.
Outcomes
The working group will:
- coordinate efforts of all WFEO committees on climate change and find platforms to showcase these efforts.
- advance awareness of best practice in climate mitigation and adaptation, which could be through showcasing decarbonisation and/or resilience efforts of engineering projects.
- assist in the advancement of guidance tools and standards for decarbonisation, adaptation and resilience, through global expert advice to existing projects.
- raise awareness of WFEO’s work on and commitment to climate change.
- apply, lead and participate with WFEO side events to the UNFCCC annual critical events, the Bonn Intersessional Conference (traditionally held in June) and the Conference of the Parties (traditionally held in November/December)
Davide Stronati, Chair of WGCC
Davide Stronati is the Director of Sustainability at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). He was previously the Global Sustainability Leader of Mott MacDonald. Between 2007-2012, he was seconded to the @one Alliance Anglian Water leading delivery of the carbon strategy for asset management.
Davide holds a Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Trieste in Italy (1997) an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the Cambridge – MIT Institute (2004); he attended the High Potentials Leadership Programme at Harvard Business School in Boston, US (2011).
He is currently the panel chair for the Institution of Civil Engineers Sustainability Leadership Team; member of the MSc Management Business Advisory Board at Imperial College Business School; member of the Planning Committee on Global Sustainability, American Society of Civil Engineers; member of the Standard Committee of SuRe, Standards for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure at the Global Infrastructure Basel in Switzerland; member of the UN Global Compact network UK Advisory Group.
Activities
Members
Members list
| Member | WFEO National Member / Institution | Country / Region |
| Abdou Mahaman Dango | Ordre des Ing. G. Civil Niger | Niger |
| Adam Kirkup (secretariat) | Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) | UK |
| Alfonso González Fernández | World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE) | International |
| Amable Esparza | Instituto de la Ingeniería de España | Spain |
| Asfaw Eshetu | Ethiopian Association of Civil Engineer | Ethiopia |
| Bojana Bozic | Serbian Chamber of Engineers | Serbia |
| Branka Pavlović | Engineers Chamber of Montenegro | Montenegro |
| Bruce Chong | Hong Kong Institution of Engineers | Hong Kong, SAR of China |
| Chuck Chung Yin (Albert) | Macau Institute Of Engineers | Macau, SAR of China |
| Davide Stronati (Chair) | Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) | UK |
| Dhekra Gharbi | Tunisian Engineers Order | Tunisia |
| Fawzi Massad | Jordan Engineers Association | Jordan |
| Fisseha Wondyifraw Damtew | Ethiopian Association of Civil Engineer | Ethiopia |
| Gidia K. Gategabondo | Institution of Engineers Rwanda | Rwanda |
| HE Jing | China Association for Science and Technology | China |
| Issaka Samaila | Ordre des Ing. G. Civil Niger | Niger |
| Jedidah Maina | Institution of Engineers of Kenya | Kenya |
| Jelili Bola Mudasiru | Nigerian Society of Engineers | Nigeria |
| Johnny Reis | Ordem dos Engenheiros Tecnicos Portugal | Portugal |
| Jose Fernandes | Ordem of Engineers of Angola | Angola |
| Juliet Gbormittah | Ghana Institution of Engineers | Ghana |
| Kwabena Agyei Agyepong | Ghana Institution of Engineering | Ghana |
| Lylian Coelho Ferreira | Ingénieurs et Scientifiques de France | France |
| Mahamed Raouindi | Union National des Ingénieurs | Morocco |
| Marina Pesic | Serbian Chamber of Engineers | Serbia |
| Mateus Matusse | Ordem dos Engenheiros de Moçambique | Mozambique |
| Moez Marzouk | Tunisian Engineers Order | Tunisia |
| Mohamed Ben Hafoune | Union National des Ingénieurs | Morocco |
| Moisés Dzimba | Ordem dos Engenheiros de Moçambique | Mozambique |
| Nadeem Ahmad | Pakistan Engineering Council | Pakistan |
| Paul Jowitt | Commonwealth Engineers Council | International |
| Quanchai Leepowpanth | Council of Engineers Thailand | Thailand |
| Tobias Rudolph | DMT Society for Teaching and Education | Associate / Germany |
| Toufic Asoum | Federation of Lebanese Engineers | Lebanon |
| U Soe Myint | Myanmar Engineering Society | Myanmar |
| Watson Lutumba | Ordem of Engineers of Angola | Angola |
| Wong Kit Iong (Ken) | Macau Institute Of Engineers | Macau, SAR of China |
| WU Jianping | China Association for Science and Technology | China |
| Expert | WFEO National Member / Institution | Country / Region |
| Darrel John Danyluk (advisor) | Engineers Canada | Canada |
| David Lapp (advisor) | Engineers Canada | Canada |