The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP29, was the 29th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 11 to 22 November 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The COP29 Presidency’s plan was based on two mutually reinforcing parallel pillars. ...
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The 40th meeting of UN-Water took place on 4-5 November at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
UN-Water Chair Alvaro Lario opened proceedings, and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Water, Mrs. Retno Marsudi, addressed around 130 representatives from UN-Water Members and Partners.
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The 2024 World Science and Technology Development Forum (WSTDF 2024), organized by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), was held from 22 to 24 October 2024 in Beijing, China.
WFEO President Mustafa Shehu had nominated Er Ashok Basa, WFEO Executive Vice President, to represent WFEO in this event.
The theme of ...
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The WFEO Committee on Young Engineers/Future Leaders (WFEO-YEFL) hosted the webinar “Leveraging Satellite Data to Address Poverty: Innovations and Impacts” on 20 November 2024.
The recording is available by clicking on the below image.
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On 18 October 2024, leaders of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), representing some 30 million engineers, and its sister organization, the Atlas Initiative for Climate Resilient Infrastructure (Atlas), a global leader in sustainability and disaster resilience, held a bilateral meeting with high-level representatives of the World Bank on ...
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The WFEO Committee on Anti-Corruption (WFEO-CAC), in collaboration with the Global Infrastructure Anti-corruption Center (GIACC) and the Geneva-based Globethics Foundation, organized the launch event of the “Training-of-Trainers Programme on Preventing and Investigating Corruption” that was held on 10 October 2024.
The ...
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We are pleased to announce that Marie-Line Vaiani, Chair of the Energy Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and Secretary General of the French Energy Council, has been appointed as a member of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET).
The CEET is an ...
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After nine previous successful offerings and more than 10,000 participants worldwide, Engineers Canada and Polytechnique Montréal have opened registration for a tenth offering of their free online course, Sustainability in Practice. Register here / S’inscrire ici.
The massive open online course is offered in ...
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Following his participation in the World Robot Conference 2024 held in Beijing, China, from 21 to 22 August 2024, Seng Chuan Tan, WFEO President-Elect and Emeritus President of The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES), visited the Singapore Embassy and the China Association ...
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The 8th World Robot Conference 2024 (WRC 2024), supported by WFEO and co organized by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), was held from 21 to 25 August 2024 in Beijing, China.
The WRC 2024 aimed at promoting scientific and technological progress under the new industrial development trends in the ...
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