Activities of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers Struggling against Global Warming and Climate Change

Abstract

Global environmental issues, global warming in particular, draw people's attention today. This is because the COP3 meeting of the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change is planed to be held in Kyoto on December, 1997. Since civil engineering is expected to play an important role to prevent global warming, and to mitigate its impacts, the standpoints of the civil engineering and the present activities of JSCE are reviewed. The tasks of JSCE is also examined toward struggling against global warming and climate change.