Engineering worries of a climate changing world
How are engineering employers thinking about climate change? The IET’s latest annual skills survey tells us… Climate change is worrying engineers and their businesses around the world. In China, this nervousness is shared by 98% of engineering organisations surveyed. That figure declines to 91% in Brazil. Even in the UK, the country least anxious about the issue, 65% of respondents said they are concerned or very concerned about the impact of climate change on their engineering business. Southern discomfort As we can see, it is countries in the global south that are most worried by the risks associated with global warming. When the subject moves to resilience in the face of the potential consequences of a heated world, it is these countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and China…