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Engineers must play a crucial role in our future, and sustainability is key to that role, agreed delegates at a London conference. Jean Leston reports.

Can engineers be instrumental in solving the big problems of today? The important challenges such as climate change and global poverty? The answer is yes - but only if they get much better at collaborating across disciplines and national boundaries, increase their visibility, reconnect with the societies they serve and put sustainability at the heart of engineering education and practice.

These were the key messages from last week's

conference on

, hosted by the world's three largest civil engineering organisations: the

(ICE), the

(ASCE) and the

(CSCE). The conference attracted an international audience of major consultancies, contractors, government advisors, non-governmental organisations and students, to discuss how engineers can address these three issues and have a positive influence on global development.

An important outcome was a joint protocol for engineering, signed by all three organisations, which affirms the importance of sustainable development at the core of professional practice. Each will now develop, monitor and implement an action plan for sustainable development, nationally and internationally.

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