Strategic Management of Climate Change: An Engineer's View

This annotated bibliography, written from an engineer's perspective, addresses the critical issue of climate change. The author, identifying as an engineer with a strong commitment to environmental protection, emphasizes the need for proactive measures beyond conventional approaches like tree planting. The document highlights the engineer's role in educating, advocating for, and implementing environmentally friendly solutions to combat climate change, focusing on concepts like desertification, ozone layer depletion, and global warming. It references the Paris Accord 2015, discusses the compliance of member states (with specific criticism of Australia's non-compliance), and suggests that current measures may be insufficient. The author proposes a science-based and technologically advanced approach, including the adoption of electric vehicles, and emphasizes the importance of individual, organizational, and governmental actions. The bibliography includes references to key scholarly articles and reports that support the author's arguments, providing a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potential solutions related to climate change.

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Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Skills
Like other concerned engineers, I am poised and determined to help my
contemporaries in abating the adverse effects surrounding the issue of climate change in the
world. I will employ my professional and technical knowhow to educate, sensitize and
advocate for environmentally friendly ways that may function to prevent and mitigate the
underlying adverse and problematic climatic issues. I will also utilize my career to elaborate
on various concepts surrounding the issue of climatic change. These changes include
concepts like desertification, destruction of the ozone layer, sustainability deforestation,
global warming, and pollution. Considering that my position is highly venerated in my
contemporary society, I will sensitize the society members against participating in activities
that may impose peril to our future climatic conditions.
According to the United Nations Climatic Change (2020), the Paris Accord 2015
aimed at integrating all nations towards the common cause of mitigating and combatting the
adverse climatic changes. The convention functioned by sensitizing all member countries
against the effects of climatic change. Although the Paris Accord 2015 primarily aimed at
reducing the pre-industrial global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, the Agreement
also requires countries that have achieved this objective to even target reducing the
temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius (Nangombe, et al., 201). Lowering the global
temperature rises depends on the efforts by the entire world through the pacts and
arrangements by member countries, organizations, and even individual humans. Member
states were expected to adhere and comply with the pledge of protecting their immediate
environment. However, despite being a member state, Australia is not complying with the set
guidelines of the Paris 2015 Accord. In the agreement, about 195 nations pledged to reduce
their energy emission and greenhouse emission (Davenport, 2015). Complying with the

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standards and requirements suggested in the Paris Accord would serve the planet to mitigate
and control the rates of climatic changes.
According to Dion & Laurent (2015), member countries need to go beyond the
suggestions enshrined in the Paris Accord 2015. The measures suggested in the Accord may
not be sufficient to effectively combat the issue of climatic change and the rising
temperatures. The scholars suggest that a science-based approach should be considered when
formulating the methods to combat climate change. A more radical technological approach
may function to reduce the effects of global warming. For instance, organizations and
countries should look forward to the eradication of vehicles using fossil oils and embrace the
formation of electric vehicles. Countries such as Norway have already offered subsidies for
companies that produce electric vehicles (Holtsmark & Skonhoft, 2014). Countries like China
are also supporting engineers to come up with electric vehicles.
To conclude, my role as an engineer encompasses teaching, sensitizing, advocating,
educating and elaborating concepts regarding climatic change. Employing my professional
and technical knowhow will be useful in advocating for environmentally friendly ways that
may function to prevent and mitigate the underlying adverse and problematic climatic issues.
My professional knowhow in the field will greatly help deal with the issue of climatic change
in my immediate environment.

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References
Davenport, C. (2015). Nations approve landmark climate accord in Paris. The New York
Times, 12.
Dion, S., & Laurent, E. (2015). Climate action beyond the Paris Accord (No. 2015-22).
Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE).
Holtsmark, B., & Skonhoft, A. (2014). The Norwegian support and subsidy policy of electric
cars. Should it be adopted by other countries?. Environmental science & policy, 42,
160-168.
Nangombe, S., Zhou, T., Zhang, W., Wu, B., Hu, S., Zou, L., & Li, D. (2018). Record-
breaking climate extremes in Africa under stabilized 1.5 C and 2 C global warming
scenarios. Nature Climate Change, 8(5), 375.
United Nations Climatic Change. (2020). Retrieved 9 April 2020, from
https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement