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Tag: Environmental Engineering
Engineering Net Zero Transition
By The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Property and Construction
The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
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Environmental Engineering
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ESG
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Environment Social and Governance
The Paris Agreement was adopted by 195 countries at the UN climate change conference (COP21) in December 2015. It was the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal, to achieve the goal of keeping the average global temperature rise from pre-industrial times below 2 °C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C . A report in October 2018 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicated that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must fall about 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 to keep within the 1.5°C target and avoid the effects of severe climate change.
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