Sustainability

Building a sustainable future through alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, addressing global challenges in climate action, social equity, and economic prosperity.
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ASME leverages its influence in innovation and technology, policy, and the workforce in executing its approach across the three dimensions of sustainability.

Environmental Stewardship

Environmental Stewardship

Enabling engineers in urgent efforts to protect and preserve our biosphere.

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Social Responsibility

Social Responsibility

Ensuring inclusivity in the field and an equitable distribution of engineering's benefits.

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Economic prosperity

Economic Prosperity

Emphasizing sustainable growth and prosperity in pursuit of a low-carbon economy.

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Our Priorities

Climate Pillars

  • Promoting clean and affordable energy by greening the economy in a way that is as fair and inclusive as possible to everyone concerned, creating decent work opportunities and leaving no one behind
 
  • Advancing clean and efficient operations and elevating resiliency within ASME and industry at large
 
  • Upskilling the future workforce by educating current and next generation engineers to keep pace with  evolving technologies and global climate challenges
 
  • Developing sustainable factories and manufacturing,  particularly within hard-to-decarbonize industries, driving toward Industry 4.0

Sustainable Development Pillars

  • Preparing the international technical workforce with the critical skills and networks to improve quality of life of people and the planet through accessible insights, training and platforms
 
  • Building the capacity of social ventures and elevating the innovation quotient of tech-based solutions for low-resource settings
 
  • Connecting and mobilizing the global engineering community at every career stage toward opportunities to apply their skills for good
 
  • Ensuring that sustainability practices are infused into the core of engineering
 

Impact by the Numbers

70,000+

 members of ASME's flagship sustainable development platform - Engineering for Change (E4C)

150+

 E4C impact projects matching mission-driven organizations with technical assistance

100+

standards enabling clean energy solutions such as advanced reactors and hydrogen

15

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) directly impacted

ASME Impact Levers

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Sustainability Events

Upcoming events

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Committees and Leadership

ASME's commitment to sustainability is driven by our dedicated committees, ringing together experts from across the engineering spectrum to address global challenges.

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ASME's committement to sustainability is driven by our dedicated committees, bringing together experts from across the engineering spectrum to address global challenges.


 

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