At this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), a sub-forum organized by the Committee on Engineering and the Environment (CEE) of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) was held in Glasgow, UK, on November 6^th. As one of the conference speakers, Professor Wu Jianping was unable to attend the conference in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic and recorded a particular video clip in advance. He talked about the purpose and the latest developments of WFEO’s “Best Engineering Practice Project for Mitigating Climate Change” at the conference site in front of the whole world.

The WFEO Best Practice Project was initiated by the CEE of WFEO and authorized by the chairperson of WFEO. Professor Wu Jianping, Director of the Tsinghua-Cambridge-MIT Future Transportation Research Center, was the project team leader and was responsible for implementing the project. The project mainly has five tasks: establishing a database, regularly publishing project reports, putting forth technical guidance, holding international conferences and forums, and providing training courses. It mainly aims to study and summarize more scientific and effective engineering techniques to mitigate global climate change. On the issue of how to achieve this, Professor Wu emphasized that the cases and experiences of successful engineering projects (including design and materials) on mitigating climate change will be collected from more than 100 WFEO member states. The data will be sorted, analyzed, summarized, and shared with all WFEO member states as project and technical guidance reports.