In the final episode of season three of the Risk! Engineers Talk Governance podcast, due diligence engineers Richard Roberson and Gaye Francis discuss the theme of criticality and design in the context of climate change and sustainability due diligence. 

They discuss:

• The consequences of redirecting rivers for irrigation, 
• Why the Victorian Government built the, to now, unused desalination plant, and argue if they should be considering the potential impacts of global warming,
• Three possible design solutions: Sun shields, increasing cloudiness, and fertilising the Southern Ocean to address climate change, and
• How knowledge, technology and costs of design solutions are constantly changing. 

The textbook where the three design solutions are highlighted is R2A’s Engineering Due Diligence which you can find at https://www.r2a.com.au/store/p/r2a-engineering-due-diligence-textbook

For more information on Richard and Gaye’s due diligence work, head to https://www.r2a.com.au/. 

And if you have any comments, feedback or topic ideas for Season 4, email us at [email protected].