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“Beyond Rhetoric – Delivering a Low Carbon Society” 2010 ICE Brunel Lecture Keith Clarke CEO - Atkins. 22 September 2010. Copenhagen paved the way. 194 Countries Media hyped ‘failure’ There have been real targets set as a response to it 2020 and 2050 are key dates - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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“Beyond Rhetoric – Delivering a Low Carbon Society”2010 ICE Brunel Lecture Keith Clarke CEO - Atkins22 September 2010
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Brunel International Lecture 2010
Copenhagen paved the way
• 194 Countries• Media hyped ‘failure’• There have been real targets set as
a response to it• 2020 and 2050 are key dates
• “In the UK, the Climate Change Act and five-year CO2e budgets will help evaluate the progress we’re making to reduce fossil fuel use substantially by 2050.”
• “…beyond Rhetoric.”
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2010 2020 2030 2040 2050
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Business As Usual
Efficiency
Decarbonisation
Journey
A very tough timeline
Habits
Embedded
Stu
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Con
sulta
tion
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“Create the society in which weaspire to live”• Our role is not to engineer austerity
• Low carbon engineering must be delivered in conjunction with high quality design, with elegance and simplicity.
• The low carbon society will not be a return to poverty and donkey carts. We will also continue to promote low carbon GDP growth and leadership in this new economy, which will be a significant source of new, green, jobs.
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“A New Industrial Revolution”
• 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
• Reducing carbon emissions could be considered a ‘new industrial revolution’ and is set to have a similar impact on tomorrow’s world.
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What stage are we at?Akin to what Brunel might have experienced in his day:
• largely conceptual• little empirical knowledge• codes becoming outdated quickly and continuously• rudimentary calculations being made based on many
assumptions.
“It’s a tremendous engineering challenge; creating a low-carbon future represents a
new design parameter that is disruptive rather than additive”
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What do I do?
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Brunel International Lecture 2010
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Complexity in codes
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When do I design?
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Seven Maxims for a HighlyEffective Engineering Profession
• Challenge assumptions
• Innovate rigorously
• Pursue commercially viable low carbon technology
• Learn to love uncertainty
• Communicate and collaborate
• Avoid inertia
• Learn rapidly
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“Don’t blame government, clients or the recession; in truth we are limited only by our ambition and ingenuity. Engineers have to demonstrate what is feasible so that governments and the financial community understand which way to go.”
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“Where is the carbon and how do we remove it from the equation?”
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