International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES)
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2002)
Reporting Period: 2002
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Environmental
- Social
- Institutional
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Global degradation of the natural basis of human life
- Increasingly unequal distribution of income and assets
- High number of people living in poverty
- Threats to peace and security
- Globalization of communication, culture, finance, and economies
- Global environmental crisis
- North-South divide in income, life expectancy, health service provision, and research capacities
- Lack of gender balance in society and science
- Urbanization
- Limited ability of institutions to deal with long-term challenges
Mitigation Strategies
- Issue-driven and reflexive research
- Early warning systems and prevention strategies
- Effective monitoring mechanisms
- Setting standards for gender equity and North-South cooperation
- Transdisciplinary research
- Improved dialogue between science, engineering, politics, and civil society
- Strengthening nations' scientific capability with emphasis on sustainable development needs
- Technology assessment twinned with technology development
- Move from case studies to a body of comparative knowledge
- Global outreach and capacity building
- Explicit identification of desired future socioeconomic order
- Permanent social learning process
- Error-friendly design and management of systems