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CLIMATES

What are the priorities for the transport sector as we enter a crucial period for tackling climate change?

Take the CIHT Climates survey today

We really need your valuable input into the next stage of this research.

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Climates Latest: An opportunity to influence the CIHT CLIMATES initiative

The CIHT CLIMATES initiative has now reached its next stage where we are seeking the views of a much wider group of highways, transportation and infrastructure professionals. This is your opportunity to help shape the CLIMATES report that will be produced in the spring, while also being able to work towards your own decarbonisation CPD.

We really need your valuable input into the next stage of this research. The CLIMATES research survey is open until Friday 14 February 2025.

If you are already up to speed with what the CLIMATES initiative is about, please head to the research page here. There are a series of scenarios and questions for you to respond to and it will take around 30 minutes to complete. We are taking a comprehensive approach to gathering your responses and have provided some supporting material alongside the questions. You can save your responses and complete the activity in more than one visit.

>>> Complete the survey

PLEASE NOTE: Taking part in this research project can contribute towards your own decarbonisation CPD

Overview

A CIHT initiative to help professionals explore what may lie ahead and explore how we can meet the challenges of climate change.

The world is in a state of flux socially, technologically, economically, environmentally and politically. What lies ahead over the next decade in relation to climate change? What does this mean for professionals and organisations in the highways and transportation sector?

CIHT CLIMATES is examining possible climate change futures and developing a series of practical recommendations to enable the sector to take meaningful and appropriate action.

Led by CIHT President Professor Glenn Lyons and sponsored by Mott MacDonald and Ringway, CIHT CLIMATES is:

better equipping professionals to determine their priorities and actions in the present in the face of future climates change possibilities
giving CIHT members a greater voice to inform how the Institution champions its climate action theme

The CLIMATES project has so far seen 10 in-person workshops around the UK, with online workshops with UK and international coverage happening in early 2025. The online research gives you an alternative opportunity to take part and provide valuable input by investing around 30 minutes of your time.

So whatever your views, wherever you are in the highways and transport sector, whatever your career stage, if you are ready to open your mind and play a part in preparing for the future, we hope you’ll take part in CIHT CLIMATES.

>>> Complete the survey today