The COP15 talks in Copenhagen are going to be some of the toughest ever undertaken. David and Ed Miliband, the foreign and climate change secretaries, have said a deal was in the balance. Speaking last week, David said: "This is too important to be left to the negotiators."That was aimed at the world's political hierarchy, but it is a statement that is just as relevant to our sector, because we, too, bear responsibility for shaping the future. Already the engineering and design professions are starting to think about climate change in more abstract ways - more as the climate of change. In many ways this is inevitable because of the legislation that is beginning to emerge.
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