Climate change is the greatest global challenge of our age, and moving to a low carbon society is as large a driver for engineers today as industrialisation was to our forefathers from the Victorian Age. What they did affected almost every aspect of daily life, and reducing carbon emissions could be considered a “new industrial revolution” and is set to have a similar impact on tomorrow’s world.
Often criticised for being slower and less innovative that their predecessors of the 1800s, what can the engineers of today learn from Telford, Watt, Brunel and the like that can help us build a low carbon society? What parallels can we draw? What have they done with the challenge of climate change?
In his lecture delivered across the globe, Keith Clarke considered the inspirational leadership of engineers of the past, the context that was needed for change to occur and how knowledge was transferred and shared nationally and internationally. Now he reviews if his hypothesis is achievable and being implemented.
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Brunel International Lectures - The delivery of a low carbon society - beyond rhetoric – or not?
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