{"id":38650,"date":"2023-12-13T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T09:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/?p=38650"},"modified":"2023-12-19T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T13:51:33","slug":"wfeo-wg-on-climate-change-side-event-at-un-climate-change-conference-cop28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wfeo-wg-on-climate-change-side-event-at-un-climate-change-conference-cop28\/","title":{"rendered":"WFEO WG on Climate Change Side event at UN Climate Change Conference COP28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COP28-WFEO-flyer-side-event-draft6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1376\" height=\"1796\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COP28-WFEO-flyer-side-event-draft6-1.jpg 1376w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COP28-WFEO-flyer-side-event-draft6-1-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COP28-WFEO-flyer-side-event-draft6-1-785x1024.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COP28-WFEO-flyer-side-event-draft6-1-768x1002.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COP28-WFEO-flyer-side-event-draft6-1-1177x1536.jpg 1177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1376px) 100vw, 1376px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/working-group-climate-change\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WFEO Working Group on Climate Change<\/a>, in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservation.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conservation International (CI)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/eic-ici.ca\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/resiliencefirst.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Resilience First (RF)<\/a> organized the <a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/cop28\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">COP28 UAE<\/a> side event titled <i>Systems thinking for holistic climate action: nature-driven engineering, policy and finance solutions<\/i>, on 5 December.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP28, was held from 30 November to 12 December 2023, at the Expo City of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p><b>Abstract<\/b><br \/>\nFostering transdisciplinarity and systems thinking for inclusive, effective, nature-positive infrastructure and climate solutions in the context of the global stocktake (e.g. through nature-based and hybrid approaches, accelerating the energy transition) by mobilizing youth, finance and policy.<\/p>\n<p>The session was splited into two sections.<\/p>\n<p><b>Section One \u2013 Presentations<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Moderator: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Davide Stronati<\/strong>, Chair of the WFEO Working Group on Climate Change and Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Micheala Chan<\/strong>, Young Engineers and Future Leaders (YE\/FL) SDG 13 Working Group (WFEO) &#8211; Subject: <i>PAS 2080 Carbon Management Standard, Integration of Nature Based Solutions and Systems thinking, procurement and finance themes. Youth perspective and role of young engineers in driving these themes.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Emily Pidgeon<\/strong>, Vice President of Ocean Science and Innovation, Conservation International &#8211; Subject: <i>Hybrid &#038; Nature Based solutions<\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Laleh Behjat<\/strong>, University of Calgary (EIC) &#8211; Subject: <i>Transportation system and energy transitions.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sue Brown<\/strong>, Worley, Engineering Leadership Group\/RF &#8211; Subject: <i>Engineering with Nature<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The recording is available by clicking on the below image.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1pYM7LganwY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Section Two \u2013 Panel<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Moderator: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emily Pidgeon<\/strong>, Vice President of Ocean Science and Innovation, Conservation International<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Panelists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Merkebe Demissie<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, EIC representative &#8211; Subject: Transportation technology, bio-mimicry principles for energy transition<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pradeepa Bholanath<\/strong>, Advisor to VP of Guyana and architect of 2030 Low Carbon Strategy, Conservation International representative<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jo da Silva<\/strong>, Director, Arup<\/li>\n<li><strong>Savina Carluccio<\/strong>, Executive Director, International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI) &#8211; Subject: Sustainable Resilient Infrastructure Implementation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle Meaclem<\/strong>, WFEO Young Engineers \/ Future Leaders\u2019 Working Group on Climate Action representative, Tonkin and Taylor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The recording is available by clicking on the below image.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mOAd9n_4Dm0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFEO-WGCC-COP28_Section_2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>For more information:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-internet-explorer fa-2x\" style=\"color: #115578;\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/working-group-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #115578;\">WFEO Working Group on Climate Change website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe WFEO Working Group on Climate Change, in partnership with Conservation International (CI), Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and Resilience First (RF) organized the COP28 UAE side event titled Systems thinking for holistic climate action: nature-driven engineering, policy and finance solutions, on 5 December.<br \/>\nThe 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP28, was held from 30 November to 12 December 2023, at the Expo City of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,169],"tags":[97,95],"class_list":["post-38650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-report","category-homepage","tag-goal-13","tag-sdgs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WFEO WG on Climate Change Side event at UN Climate Change Conference COP28 - WFEO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wfeo-wg-on-climate-change-side-event-at-un-climate-change-conference-cop28\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WFEO WG on Climate Change Side event at UN Climate Change Conference COP28 - WFEO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The WFEO Working Group on Climate Change, in partnership with Conservation International (CI), Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and Resilience First (RF) organized the COP28 UAE side event titled Systems thinking for holistic climate action: nature-driven engineering, policy and finance solutions, on 5 December. 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