我们经济和生活方式的许多方面越来越取决于我们适当管理能源需求和环境的能力。存在许多挑战，包括能源生产，管理和分配，可持续性，环境监测和测量以及与所有这些部门相关的技术。物理在所有这些领域都起着至关重要的作用。物理学家为这些领域以及可再生能源，大气监测，绿色经济等领域开发了创新技术。能源和环境部门的重要性以及物理学毕业生在其中的作用已得到国际认可。
Increasingly, many aspects of our economy and of our lifestyles depend on our ability to manage our energy needs and our environment appropriately. Many challenges exist including energy production, management and distribution, sustainability, environmental monitoring and measurement and the technologies associated with all these sectors. Physics plays a crucial role in all of these areas. Physicists develop new innovative technologies for these and areas such as renewable energy, atmospheric monitoring, the green economy and many more. The importance of the energy and the environmental sectors and the roles of physics graduates within these are internationally recognised.