Engineering Challenges For the 21st Century

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Until the second half of the 20th century, human development on earth has been largely carried out without undue strain to the eco-system. Frenetic development since the end of the Second World War caused alarm bells to sound in the sixties and seventies, leading to the current global concern for sustainable development.

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Australian Universities International Alumni Convention (AUIAC) 5-7 September 2002, Melbourne, Australia Engineering Challenges For the 21st Century By Academician Dato’ Ir. Lee Yee Cheong, DPMP, KMN, AO,F.A.Sc.,FTSE President-Elect, The World Federation Of Engineering
Until the second half of the 20th century, human development on earth has been largely carried out without undue strain to the eco-system. Frenetic development since the end of the Second World War caused alarm bells to sound in the sixties and seventies, leading to the current global concern for sustainable development.
United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission) Report “Our Common Future” in 1987 defines sustainable development as “Development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future
The Brundtland Commission led to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and Agenda 21. A Decade Later, the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) was held in Johannesburg 26 August-4
Failure of Agenda 21 since Rio (Kofi Annan) First, a Fragmented Approach to Sustainable Development Secondly, no Major Changes in the Unsustainable Patterns of Consumption and Production Thirdly, there is a lack of mutually Coherent Policies or Approaches in the areas of finance, trade, investment, technology and sustainable development.
UN Secretary General in his 2002 Report “Implementing Agenda 21” expects WSSD to reinvigorate Agenda 21 through a new approach integrating the three critical elements: Political Will, Practical Steps, Partnerships.
UN Secretary General proposes the following means for implementing Agenda 21 after WSSD: · Finance (Monterey Financing for Development Conference 2002) · Trade (WTO “post-Doha” Trade for Development Round of Negotiations)
This is recognition, however belated, of the pivotal role of Science, Engineering and Technology (S.E.T) in Sustainable
World Population into 3 groups by means
The Engineering Mission in the globalised world of this century is to enable Humankind to achieve Sustainability.