IEEE brings together members and volunteers from around the world to drive discussions that help advance technology for the benefit of humanity. The IEEE community worked together to explore ways to mitigate the effects of climate change and help build a more sustainable future.
Leading The Conversa
With the diverse expertise of its members, volunteers and staff, IEEE serves an important role of enabling collaboration between technology and engineering professionals, policymakers and other organizations to foster a dialogue on sustainable energy policies and practices.
The IEEE Technology Center for Climate, based in the IEEE Vienna Global Office, was established in July 2023 to support partnerships, collaboration and knowledge sharing with leading institutions as they explore and implement technology to address climate change. One of its inaugural activities was teaming up with Reuters to produce four webinars featuring IEEE member insights on electrification, frontier tech for climate, green digital and workforce for a sustainable future.
The impactful work of IEEE volunteers from around the globe took center stage in 2023. This included the development of an IEEE climate change inventory of activities, designed to consolidate and identify opportunities for further collaboration within IEEE and with other organizations.
At IEEE Sections Congress, which brought together over 1,000 attendees from IEEE Sections across the globe, a Climate Change Pavilion showcased projects being executed locally by Sections, Societies, IEEE Young Professionals and more in support of sustainability efforts. IEEE showcased over 50 climate change stories on how volunteers made an impact. Staff collaborated with volunteers to help shape the stories at the pavilion.
The “Net Zero Warriors” initiative was launched by IEEE President Saifur Rahman during his visit to India in July to motivate and facilitate engineers, young professionals and entrepreneurs to undertake key innovation and technology challenges in energy transition, which can enable decarbonization across the energy spectrum, globally.
The IEEE Climate Change community on IEEE Collabratec® also engaged thousands of IEEE members and non-members in these important discussions.
IEEE scholarly publications, conference proceedings, technical standards and other materials help foster the exchange of technical knowledge and information for the critical climate issues that our planet faces.
The IEEE Standards Association continued to develop its growing collection of standards for sustainability, climate change and social responsibility solutions. Here are some examples:
IEEE and its members inspire a global community through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.
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