b'Member News November 2023 11Societal challengesIET to bringPart of ourIET COPengineering skillsseriesdebate to COP28Our engagement with the Conference of Parties (COP) Bringing engineering skills to the climate debateYou might remember usand what options there are forTo do this, we have joinedengineering skills within climate announcing in the Novemberengaging further in the future. forces with the IEEE, the UNchange conversations and are 2021 issue of Member NewsThis year, for COP28 inSustainable Developmentplanning additional events that as part of our SustainabilityDubai (30 November12Solutions Network (SDSN),throughout the conference, and Climate Change work,December), we are hoping toincluding the Council of Engineersto provide attendees and the the IET had obtained officialmake more of a splash andfor the Energy Transition (CEET),local engineering community NGO Observer Status to thebring the challenges facingUnited Nations Industrialin Dubai with opportunities United Nations Frameworkengineers to the forefront ofDevelopment Organisationto engage with our findings.Convention on Climatethe climate change debate.(UNIDO), and Student Energy Change (UNFCCC). This hasWe know that engineers willto put on an official side eventAfter COP28allowed us to attend climatebe responsible for solvingwithin the COP28 Blue Zone. conferences such as COP26many climate challengesThis is the area where all theOur hope for the future and COP27. We sent delegatesand we want to ensure thatofficial negotiations take placeis, that by partnering with from both the IET and Royalgovernments and the businessand having Observer Statusmany other PEIs and other Academy of Engineering to bothcommunity truly understandinternational engineering conferences, where we learntthe opportunities and solutionsallows us entry. The event will beorganisations to amplify more about how they work that engineering has to offer. focused on the exciting emergingour message, our work technologies being created bywill eventually lead to an engineers and the skills that willEngineering Day being be needed to develop them. scheduled within the We will be using this platformthematic programme of to unveil the results fromfuture COP conferences.this years Green SkillsIn the meantime, we will Survey, which we launchedbe taking our skills survey internationally to ensure thatfindings and outcomes we fairly represent the skillsfrom this years conference needs of engineers around theand using them to develop world at this global event. our learning offering for Our event will take place onour members. We will Friday, 8 December on thealso use them in our Youth, Children, Educationpolicy work to influence and Skills day within the COPgovernment strategy thematic programme. We arearound skills gaps and development for engineers.determined to raise the profile of'