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petroleum production and
many other fields of endeavor.
Lack of climate consideration
by an engineer may result in
that individual being held
jointly or personally liable for
failures or damages arising
from climate impacts on engineered systems. Concurrent
with evolving regulation, client requirements and societal
expectations; engineers need professional practice guidance
on how to address climate change in their work. Providing such
guidance is the role of the engineering regulators across Canada,
including Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO).
It is time for Ontario's engineering profession to understand
what they can do to address climate change - true action. A
start would be to learn about the United Nation's Sustainable
Development Goals, both current practitioners and especially
our next generation of engineers who will have a larger and larger
role to play.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(UNSDGs) are not just tools for governments but, some say, are
really the " World's To Do List " .
Many engineering regulators in Canada, and our national
body, Engineers Canada, have programs and/or advanced plans
underway to address climate change (UNSDG #13 is Climate
Action) and sustainability in engineering practice. Fellow
engineering regulators such as Engineers and Geoscientists of
BC (EGBC) and Engineers and Geoscientists Manitoba (EGMB),
Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland
and Labrador (PEGNL), Engineers and Geoscientists New
Brunswick (EGNB) and Ordre des Ingenieurs du Quebec (OIQ)
all have professional development education and training
seminars and courses delivered and planned. Some regulators,
particularly EGBC, are farther advanced, having counciladopted
policies on climate change adaptation and mitigation
as well as a council-approved climate action plan that is in its
second year of implementation. A key and common component
of all these efforts is an emphasis on continuing education.
Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) is just
beginning this journey. It is time that PEO
stepped up to the plate. To begin, reference
is made to the work of our national body.
Engineers Canada has developed
National Guidelines on Sustainable
Development and Environmental
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Stewardship for Professional
Engineers. Education to
familiarize engineers with
the 10 principles and their
application in practice is
embodied in a Massive Open
Online Course
(MOOC)
Sustainability in Practice, developed and delivered by Engineers
Canada in partnership with Polytechnique Montreal available in
both French and English which is free to take. This overarching
document includes principles around consideration of climate
change through mitigation of GHGs and adaptation for climate
resilience.
In addition, Engineers Canada has created a second National
Guideline " Principles of Climate Change Adaptation and
Mitigation for Engineers " , published in 2017. This guideline
consists of 11 principles of professional practice to guide
engineers on the factors and elements involved in considering
climate change in their practice for whatever discipline of
engineering.
It should be noted that Engineers Canada is not an engineering
regulator and as such its guidelines are not standards of practice
or care, nor do they constitute legal advice or opinion. However
they do have the consensus of all 12 engineering regulators in
Canada, including PEO, to provide guidance in the absence of
legally binding practice standards that can only be issued by a
regulator. These documents are a good place for PEO to start
its journey towards formalizing its recognition of the issue and
its relevance to engineering practice. Formal endorsement/
adoption of these documents would be a very good first
step towards fulfilling the responsibility of PEO as an
engineering regulator, regulating engineering
practice in the public interest.

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