The Role of Engineering in Addressing Climate Change

More than 100 experts from academia, industry, and government convened Dec. 7-8, 2021, to identify priorities for engineering research that address one of the world’s most vexing challenges: climate change. The Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) event keenly focused on ways engineering can lead fundamental research efforts to address climate change. Effectively mitigating the impact of climate change requires deliberate tools wielded by the engineering research community. Facilitated by significant and sustained investment, these tools can bring transformative change to the way society confronts the causes and impacts of climate change. Over the course of the visioning event, nascent research directions ripe for engineering research community investigation emerged and are discussed in this report