Engineering and the Environment

The Committee on Engineering and the Environment aims to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals by harnessing the leading role of environmental engineering technology, application and demonstration, with a particular focus on SDG 11 and SDG 12.

The committee’s goals

• 11Sustainable cities and communities
  Focus
• 12Responsible consumption and production
  Focus
• 13Climate action
  Support
• 14Life below water
  Support
• 15Life on land
  Support
• 17Partnerships for the goals
  Listed on the SDGs tab

“Focus” and “Support” are the committee’s own words on its page; the SDGs tab on wfeo.org also lists SDG 17.

What it does

• Supports WFEO’s major initiatives, such as World Engineering Day and the World Engineers’ Convention, and other committees working on engineering and the environment.
• Represents WFEO at global conferences such as the UN Environment Assembly and the Conferences of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and to the UNFCCC.
• Plans a Biennial Summit (in China in 2025, then every two years) and roundtable meetings.
• With the Committee on Young Engineers / Future Leaders, an education initiative for students, including a summer training camp.

Four subcommittees

• Green Paper-Making and Resource Recycling

  12SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production15SDG 15: Life on land

• Green Metallurgy

  12SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production13SDG 13: Climate action

• Green Textile

  12SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production14SDG 14: Life below water

• Urban Mining and Pollution Control

  11SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities13SDG 13: Climate action

Recent activity

• 2026 2026 Global Summer School on Sustainability, Shanghai, 28 June – 11 July↗ (on wfeo.org)
• 2023–25 Committee on Engineering and the Environment activity report (PDF, on the staging site)
• — The Carbon Footprints journal, in collaboration with WFEO-CEE (PDF, on the staging site)

Source: committee page (staging), SDGs tab on wfeo.org, wfeo.org news, read 13 October 2026.

Committee members’ area

Committee members sign in once, through the Members Portal, to reach working documents, the member list and meeting papers.

Members Portal