Climate & Sustainability

Engineers and Geoscientists BC is committed to support registrants in incorporating climate change considerations into their practice. We have undertaken several initiatives to explore the impact of climate change on professional engineering and geoscience practice. This work is driven by our 2022-2027 Strategic Plan outcomes whereby advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, sustainability, and climate action are seen as equally important imperatives in pursuit of our vision to be a “modern regulation for a resilient world.”

Position Statement

Engineers and Geoscientists BC published its updated position statement in 2025, building on and consolidating its 2014 and 2016 position statements, to articulate its stance on climate change in alignment with its Strategic Plan. The position statement articulates the vision for Engineers and Geoscientists BC's Organizational Climate Change Strategy and sets expectations for registrants to consider climate change in professional practice.

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Organizational Climate Change Strategy 

The Organizational Climate Change Strategy (the Strategy) published in 2025 advances Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s public interest mandate under the Professional Governance Act while operationalizing the Strategic Plan and advancing our vision articulated in the updated Climate Change Position Statement. The Strategy builds on the Climate Change Action Plan to address climate change proactively, both within our operations and through our regulatory activities, to lead by example, and to support registrants in integrating climate change and sustainability considerations into their professional practice. 

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Climate Change Action Plan

Engineers and Geoscientists BC released its Climate Change Action Plan in 2021, prior to the release of our Strategic Plan. The Climate Change Action Plan articulates the two complementary goals of Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s climate action: reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change. While the plan outlined goals to support registrants in their professional practice, their integration into operational and regulatory activities was later clarified through our Organizational Climate Change Strategy.

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Climate Change and Sustainability Advisory Group

The Climate Change and Sustainability Advisory Group supports Engineers and Geoscientists BC in its regulatory function by providing advice on relevant matters related to climate change, and identifying, advancing, and facilitating sustainability in the practice of engineering and geoscience.

Regulatory Learning Module

The 2023-2024 Regulatory Learning Module was developed in response to the objectives of Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s Climate Change Action Plan and focuses on climate change and sustainability. Specifically, the module outlines how climate change presents risks to sustainability, what the responsibilities are for registrants to consider sustainability and climate change in their professional practice, and how registrants can follow the requirements of the Professional Practice Guidelines to integrate sustainability into professional practice.

Sustainability

Since the early 1990s, Engineers and Geoscientists BC has supported and encouraged its registrants to adopt sustainable principles within the practice of professional engineering and geoscience, and have developed the following reference materials:

• The Sustainability Professional Practice Guidelines provide guidance to engineering and geoscience professionals on how to incorporate sustainability into their professional practice.
• The Sustainability Reference Materials complement the guidelines as a starting point for information about key sustainability concepts.

For further questions about climate and sustainability at Engineers and Geoscientists BC, please contact [email protected].