Climate Action Urged By Newly Elected Ciht President - Tpa
The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) now has a new confirmed President for 2023/24. That person is Karen McShane, who – at her Presidential Inauguration event at the CIHT’s London offices – said it was crucial to put into motion “climate action to drive attitudinal change on how and why we travel”. CIHT set to take on “key challenge to society” A chartered engineer with more than 35 years’ experience – including in local government as well as consultancy – the new CIHT President has already set out her stall on climate. Sure enough, the CIHT’s coming year under McShane will see the charity and membership body undertake a range of activities and initiatives, focusing on the central theme of the decarbonisation of the highways, transport, and infrastructure sector. Describing climate change as “a key challenge to society”, McShane went on to reference the Climate Change (Targeted Greenhouse Gases) Order 2023, which she said was “one of the lat...