Quaker woman wins top engineer award

Carla Denyer recognised for work on tackling climate change

by Rebecca Hardy 3rd July 2020

A Quaker who led the way in Bristol becoming the first city in Europe to declare a climate emergency has been named one of the Top Fifty Women in Engineering for 2020 by the Women’s Engineering Society. Green Party councillor and mechanical engineer Carla Denyer, who specialises in renewable energy, received the award in recognition of her work on tackling climate change in Bristol, where she inspired the city to commit to becoming carbon neutral by 2030.