“The COP27 climate summit offers an opportunity to make greater progress on transitioning to a low-emissions world while protecting nations and communities that are most affected by the impacts of climate change, as well as maintaining food and water security around the world — both of which are under stress. The summit also can advance innovations in how nations finance climate-resilient development and invest in future energy infrastructure.
We are seeing encouraging signs of progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions as renewable energy sources become more widely available and affordable, and here in the U.S., the recent passage of historic legislation to incentivize the shift to clean energy should help boost domestic efforts. Nevertheless, our country, along with much of the world, is still lagging behind in reaching critical emission-reduction targets. Without urgent and sustained action, extreme events such as this year’s record-breaking heat waves in the U.S., devastating droughts in China and Europe, and deadly floods in Pakistan could become the “new normal,” with society’s most vulnerable at particular risk.
We call upon world leaders in government, business, and civil society to continue to work together to forge effective and equitable solutions to the climate crisis. At the U.S. National Academies, we are committed to enlisting science, engineering, and medicine to inform these efforts so that together, we can create a more secure, more sustainable, and more prosperous future for all.”
Marcia McNutt, President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
John L. Anderson, President, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Victor J. Dzau, President, U.S. National Academy of Medicine
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“The COP27 climate summit offers an opportunity to make greater progress on transitioning to a low-emissions world while protecting nations and communities that are most affected by the impacts of climate change, as well as maintaining food and water security around the world — both of which are under stress. The summit also can advance innovations in how nations finance climate-resilient development and invest in future energy infrastructure.
We are seeing encouraging signs of progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions as renewable energy sources become more widely available and affordable, and here in the U.S., the recent passage of historic legislation to incentivize the shift to clean energy should help boost domestic efforts. Nevertheless, our country, along with much of the world, is still lagging behind in reaching critical emission-reduction targets. Without urgent and sustained action, extreme events such as this year’s record-breaking heat waves in the U.S., devastating droughts in China and Europe, and deadly floods in Pakistan could become the “new normal,” with society’s most vulnerable at particular risk.
We call upon world leaders in government, business, and civil society to continue to work together to forge effective and equitable solutions to the climate crisis. At the U.S. National Academies, we are committed to enlisting science, engineering, and medicine to inform these efforts so that together, we can create a more secure, more sustainable, and more prosperous future for all.”
Marcia McNutt, President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
John L. Anderson, President, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Victor J. Dzau, President, U.S. National Academy of Medicine
ClimaTwin® is a leading climate risk intelligence solution for infrastructure assets and the built environment.
We empower infrastructure stakeholders to mitigate climate risks and assess adaptation actions across the total asset lifecycle. By connecting complex climate models and infrastructure digital twins, our solution enables engineers, owner-operators, and governments to aggregate, visualize, and analyze disparate datasets, revealing site-specific insights at a hyper-local scale. Benefits include 5-10x near-term returns and lifetime cost-avoidance by mitigating risks to systems, services, and societies.
To learn more about climate risk intelligence for your infrastructure assets, please visit www.climatwin.com today.
Initiatives of the ASCE IRD Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee include: research projects to develop theory and technology; working groups to solve specific challenges; industrial collaborations and show cases; working with authorities towards regulatory documents; contributions to codes and workshops; contributions to conferences; and, publications as technical reports and books. Further, special issues focus on the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems.
During the international committee meeting, Emin Aktan and Hiba Baroud review the Workshop on Resilience Research with NIST (U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology). Further, Michael Beer and Yongbo Peng provide an update on conference activities, including ISRERM: International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management and ICVRAM: International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) develops resources for improving the resilience of civil infrastructure and lifeline systems to all hazards. The IRD was established in 2014 to develop a unified approach to advancing the concepts of resilience within lifeline and infrastructure systems. Technical committee membership carries with it an obligation to participate actively in committee work through contribution of technical information.
Initiatives of the ASCE IRD Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee include: research projects to develop theory and technology; working groups to solve specific challenges; industrial collaborations and show cases; working with authorities towards regulatory documents; contributions to codes and workshops; contributions to conferences; and, publications as technical reports and books. Further, special issues focus on the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems.
During the international committee meeting, Emin Aktan and Hiba Baroud review the Workshop on Resilience Research with NIST (U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology). Further, Michael Beer and Yongbo Peng provide an update on conference activities, including ISRERM: International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management and ICVRAM: International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) develops resources for improving the resilience of civil infrastructure and lifeline systems to all hazards. The IRD was established in 2014 to develop a unified approach to advancing the concepts of resilience within lifeline and infrastructure systems. Technical committee membership carries with it an obligation to participate actively in committee work through contribution of technical information.
In order to confront our current climate crisis, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Board of Direction encourages all ASCE standards committees to review current versions of industry standards, such as ASCE/SEI 7-22 – Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, with respect to climate readiness and resilience. The ASCE Board of Direction is comprised of three Presidential Officers and fifteen Directors. Further, the Board suggests that the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) take the following actions:
Supplement ASCE 7* to update the flood information;
Develop an interim guideline to address climate impacts on environmental hazards, before the publication of ASCE 7-28;
Conduct outreach to federal agencies to ensure new grant programs under IIJA include standards with criteria or eligibility;
And, identify ways to standardize, codify, and address embodied cardon reductions and climate change impacts.
* ASCE 7 is the Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures (ASCE/SEI 7-22). An integral part of building codes in the United States, ASCE/SEI 7, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures describes the means for determining design loads including dead, live, soil, flood, tsunami, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, seismic, and wind loads and combinations for general structural design. Structural engineers, architects, and building code officials find the structural load requirements essential to professional practice.
About ASCE
The American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 150,000 members of the civil engineering profession in 177 countries. Founded in 1852, ASCE is the nation’s oldest engineering society. ASCE stands at the forefront of a profession that plans, designs, constructs, and operates society’s economic and social engine – the built environment – while protecting and restoring the natural environment.
