Australian Engineers
Declare Climate
and Biodiversity Emergency
Australian Engineers Declare Climate and Biodiversity Crises
Movement Declaration : The impending climate breakdown and biodiversity loss are the two most serious issues of our time. Australian Engineers Declare are determined to address this.
Engineering activities are connected with over 65% of Australia’s Direct Greenhouse Gas Emissions.1
As such, engineering teams have a responsibility to actively support the transition of our economy towards a low carbon future. This begins with honestly and loudly declaring a climate and biodiversity emergency.
Meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth’s ecological boundaries demands a paradigm shift in our activities and our behaviours. Together with our clients, we will need to design and implement systems, infrastructure and technologies that can contribute to constantly regenerating and self-sustaining economic and ecological systems.
The research and technology exist for us to begin that transformation now, but we need to work together.
Recognising this, we commit to strengthening our work practices to create systems, infrastructure, technology and products that have a positive impact on the world around us. Our profession is respected for its problem solving abilities. It is time for us to take a stronger
leadership role in addressing our world’s most pressing problems.
Our Declaration
We will seek to:
– Evaluate all new projects against the environmental necessity to mitigate climate breakdown, and encourage our clients to adopt this approach.
– Advocate for faster change in our industry towards regenerative design practices, that respect ecological limits whilst enabling socially just access to resources and services, and a higher governmental funding priority to support this.
– Advocate for and undertake 21st century economic assessments that take a whole-of-system, whole-of-life approach, and take into account the implications of expanding beyond ecological ceilings and failing to meet fundamental human rights and social justice obligations.
– Join with other professions and work with government to develop a stronger and more comprehensive whole-of-government response to the climate emergency.
– Collaborate with policy makers and planners, contractors and clients to further these broad outcomes.
– Learn from and collaborate with First Nations to adopt work practices that are respectful, culturally sensitive and regenerative.
– Upgrade existing infrastructure and technology for extended use when the opportunity arises for carbon emissions reduction.
– Accelerate the shift to circular economy principles (e.g. minimise wasteful use of resources) and low embodied carbon materials in all our work.
– Implement climate change and biodiversity loss mitigation principles.
– Raise awareness of the climate and biodiversity emergencies and the urgent need for action in our organisations and networks.
– Track and share stories of success as individuals and companies make climate positive choices, building pride and solidarity in the engineering sector and our role in delivering a healthy planet.
– Share knowledge and research to that end, on an open source basis.
We acknowledge that First Nations peoples have long espoused the cultural, social, economic and environmental benefits embedded in the holistic relationship of Caring for Country. We respect and embrace this perspective.
Signatories
Individuals – we invite engineers and engineering students in Australia to sign
Organisations – we invite organisations with core capacity in engineering in Australia to sign
Sign up as an individual
Sign up as an organisation
Please contact the movement coordinators at info@engineersdeclare.org.
INDIVIDUALS
Engineering
Signatories
1933Student
Signatories
221Supporters
536ORGANISATIONS
Engineering
Signatories
189Supporters
18Individual Signatries
Individual Supporters
Organisation Signatries
100% Renewables Pty LtdAbergeldie
ACCIONA
ACE-EV Group
Acmena Group Pty Ltd
ADP Consulting
aib Consulting Services Pty Ltd
AJSWAN Consulting pty ltd
AKL Consulting Engineers
AlgaEnviro PTY LIMITED
Alinga Energy Consulting
ALJ Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd
Allume Energy
AMECO Group
ANAT
Anditi Pty Ltd
Aptitude Pty Ltd
ARI Water Solutions
Ark Resources
Arup Australia Pty Limited
ATEC Australia-International
Atelier Ten
Autonomous Grazing Australia
Awssam Engineering Pty Ltd
BABCO Industries
Barros van den Dool Active Transport Pty Ltd
Beyond Zero Emissions
Blue Environment Pty Ltd
Bluecoast Consulting Engineers
BlueZone Group
BuildSort
Built Environment (BE) Collective PTY LTD
CADDS Group
Cambray Consulting Pty Ltd
Cantilever Consulting Engineers
Care Collaborative Pty Ltd
CJ Arms
Clean Technology Partners Pty Ltd
Clear Project Management
CMP Consulting Group
COMFORTiD
CSU Engineering
Cundall
David A Hood & Associates Pty Ltd
DETA Consulting
Detail Green
ebmpapst A&NZ Pty Ltd
ECO 3
Edson Global Pty Ltd
Ekkremon Pty Ltd
Element47
Ellworx
Enernet Global
Enertrans Pty Ltd
Engineers Without Borders Australia
Enhar
Enosi Australia
Enphase Energy
Enveng Group
eTool Global
Exa Product Development
Fabric First
FG Advisory
Flood Community of Practice
Flux Consultants
FORM Engineers
Froster Engineering
Gamcorp
GBL Process
Gender Matters
GLP Renewables
GreenLeaf Sky
GreenSync
Grün Consulting
GZ Consulting Engineers
Hoogland Consult Pty Ltd
Hydraulic Consultants Association Australasia
Hydrogen Energy Group
Indigenous Energy Australia
INDIGI LAB
Inhabit
Innovation Drive Pty Ltd
Innovative Tech Australia Pty Ltd
Insitu Test
Institute of Quality Asset Management Pty Ltd
Integral Consulting Engineers
Integral Group
Integrated Sustainability
Intrawater Pty Ltd
Inxure Consulting
Ironbark Sustainability
ITP Thermal Pty Ltd
JBA Consulting Engineers
Johnston Project Management & Consulting Pty Ltd
K-Lab Projektering AB
Kayak4earth Pty Ltd
KEP Solutions
Kororoit Institute
Laing O'Rourke
Laminar Communications
Leisure Solutions®
LHQ
Lighthouse Futures
Loci Environment & Place Inc
Long Future Foundation
Long View Consulting Engineers
Lycaon Group Pty Ltd
Mark G Jackson Consulting
Marschall Acoustics Instruments Pty. Ltd.
Martin Fisher
MaxEnt Solutions Pty Ltd
MCE (Management Commercial Engineering)
Meinhardt Group
Metis Design & Engineering
MetroCount
Mitigado
Mott MacDonald
MRA Consulting Group
MZ3 Pty Ltd
N Positive
NewieVentures
Northrop Consulting Engineers
Okra Solar Pty Ltd
Oranik Consulting Engineers
PEMUL
Permagroove consulting
Planet Ark Power
Pollinate Group
Presync
Project Controls Expo
Randall Jones & Associates Pty Ltd
Rapley Consulting Engineers
Rayner Design Pty. Ltd.
RESoilstone Pty Ltd
Resonant Solutions
Resonate Consultants
RobacScience Pty Ltd
Robert Bird Group
School of Engineering, Deakin University
School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University
School of Engineering, Griffith University
SDA Structures
SEED Engineers
Sempo
Senversa Pty Ltd
Seriani Designs
SipHaus Building Systems
Six Cats Consulting
SL Power Services
Solar Analytics
SolarHaus
SolarQuotes
Speckel Software Pty Ltd
Stantec Australia
Steele Consulting P/L
Steensen Varming
Sunovate Pty Ltd
Surface Design
Sustainability Wise
Sustainable Engineering (Vic) Pty Ltd
Sustainable People Solutions
Swantech Consultants
Synchrony
Tangible
Taylor Consulting Engineers
Taylor Thomson Whitting
Tekt Industries
TETRAPY PTY LTD
Tonkin
Transmobility Consulting
Traverse Technologies
Ultraspin Technology
Unios
UNSW Engineering
Urban Water Cycle Solutions
VEHTEC Pty Ltd
Veta Pty Ltd
viltWALL
Vistek
Vivid Civil Engineering
Wallbridge Gilbert Aztec RFP
WebbConsult
Windana Research Pty Ltd
WRAP Engineering
XLam Australia
Yenem Engineering Services Pty Ltd
Organisation Supporters
Cayley Aerospace IncCentre for Innovation Industry Economic Research Inc.
Chinmayi Research and Consulting
Circuit Alert Electrical & Solar
Climactic Collective
CRDT Tours
EcoSun (Cambodia) Co., Ltd.
Engineers Without Borders Kosovo
Epoca Environmental Pty Ltd
eTool
Genesis Now
IMEMS Environmental
nlhEnvironmental
Open Instruments
ReductionTech
Small Giants
Sustainable Energy Now
Visospace