Engineering Earth’s Future is more than a motto—it’s a challenge and a promise. It asks us to rethink progress not as endless growth, but as careful stewardship of the only home we have. From capturing carbon to designing circular processes, every technical breakthrough must serve our shared goal: a stable climate and a resilient planet.

By harnessing green hydrogen, deploying renewable energy arrays, advancing carbon capture and utilization, and embedding circular‑economy principles into every stage of design, we chart a course toward eliminating net emissions. These are not distant ideas—they are the tools we bring to the table today.

The world is now watching. You will either be lauded by future generations, or vilified by them.
These words remind us that our work carries weight far beyond laboratories and lecture halls. Each choice we make—every material we select, every process we optimize—writes the story our grandchildren will read.

Lincoln’s warning still rings true:
 “We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the last generation…
We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of Earth.”

That is our charge—you are the last best hope of Earth.

At AIChE India SRC 2025, under this theme, we gather to turn vision into action. Here, engineers come together to share tools, techniques, and the resolve to build pathways to Net Zero—because our legacy depends on what we do today. Let this be the moment when ideas become commitments, and commitments become the sustainable world we all deserve.