HKUST Institute for the Environment has recently become a regional hub under the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). The WCRP initiative My Climate Risk is working with several regional hubs globally to form a network of hubs that work on climate risk. Together with other hubs, the Institute will share knowledge, experiences, and resources working towards the goals of My Climate Risk.
Climate-themed events
To help catalyze a variety of activities following the spirit of My Climate Risk, Our Institute will continue organizing climate-themed events. Stay tuned for event updates on LinkedIn.
Our climate-themed events can be categorised as follows:
1. Climate Risk, Adaptation and Resilience
- AUG 2025 - The IX Convection Permitting Climate Modeling Workshop
- DEC 2024 - Bracing Future Heat: A Reality Check on Heat Risks and Preparedness
- MAY 2024 - Surviving the Heat: The Science and Adaptation Strategies for Extreme Heat
- NOV 2023 - Navigating Unpredictable Rains and Floods: Useful Stress Tests for Hong Kong
- DEC 2022 - CARE 2022 | Climate Adaptation and Resilience Conference
- APR 2019 - Global Conversation: Can Big Data Save Lives Protecting Hong Kong Against Air Pollution and Extreme Weather
- OCT 2018 - Climate Adaptation & Resilience (CARe2018) Hong Kong Conference
- OCT 2016 - Climathon Conference: Extreme Heat, Extreme Density - Problems and Solutions
2. Climate Change & Climate Mitigation
- JAN 2025 - Post-COP29 Hong Kong Forum: Reflections and the Path Forward for Hong Kong's Role in Global Sustainability
- FEB 2024 - Post-COP28 Hong Kong Forum
- JAN 2023 - Post-COP27 Hong Kong Forum
- AUG 2021 - Accelerating Low-Carbon Innovations Towards Carbon Peak and Neutrality
- JUN 2021 - Race-to-Zero: Hong Kong's Climate Actions Towards a Net Zero Future
- DEC 2020 - The Fifth Anniversary of Paris Agreement Conference
- NOV 2020 - Is Hong Kong Ready to Ride on China's Carbon Neutral Pledge?
- JAN 2020 - Post-COP25 Hong Kong Forum
- JAN 2019 - Post-COP24 HONG KONG FORUM – Implications for Hong Kong’s Long-Term Decarbonization Strategy
- NOV 2018 - Unlocking the Inclusive Growth Story of the 21st Century: Accelerating Climate Action in Urgent Times
- MAY 2018 - The Future of the Paris Agreement
- DEC 2017 - Post-COP23 Hong Kong Forum
- DEC 2016 - Paris and Marrakesh: Where is the Action on Climate Change going?
3. Green and Sustainable Finance
- FEB 2024 - Launch of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculation And Estimation Tools
- JUN 2023 - Accelerating the Transition to a Net-Zero Global Economy: Regulatory Climate Disclosure and Risk Analysis
- MAY 2022 - TCFD-based reporting of capacity to transition to net-zero carbon emissions
- DEC 2021 - Fireside Chat with Dr. MA Jun: Sustainable Finance Taxonomies and Green Finance
- JAN 2021 - Biz@HKUST ESG Webinar: Mobilizing Capital for the Brown to Green Transition: Panel of Catalysers
- OCT 2019 - Business and the Climate Change Challenge
- JUN 2018 - Financing Green Infrastructure in the Greater Bay Area
- APR 2018 - Catching the Wave: Hong Kong as a Regional Green Finance Hub?
Other MCR events and opportunities
2025
- Upcoming MCR Session: Transdisciplinarity and Colonialism in Climate Education Meeting Registration - Zoom Mar 12, 2025 07:00 AM UTC
- The Special Issue Focus on Bottom-up Construction of Climate Risk Information in now live: IOPscience - Focus on Bottom-up Construction of Climate Risk Information
- My Climate Risk Interdisciplinary Learning Group” (MCRILG) - Lecture by Dr Alex Arnall, 13 January 2025; 13:00-14:00 GMT.
2024
- My Climate Risk General Assembly - Oct/Nov 2024
- Climate storylines as a tool for interdisciplinary dialogue on risk decision-making. (Recording) 23 October 2024; 11:00-12:00 Argentina | 14:00-15:00 UTC
- My Climate Risk at the “Climate ethics: Negotiating values in climate science for adaptation” Workshop in Paris, France, 16-18 October 2024.
- My Climate Risk meets Philosophy of Science. Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 14-15 October 2024
- My Climate Risk Interdisciplinary Learning Group” (MCRILG) Session. 13 May 2024. Website.
- My Climate Risk General Assembly - May 2024
- "Climate voices on the Ground: Perspectives from different sectors" for 2024 - Webinar series hosted by MCR-ADMU hub. Website.
- "Climate Research 'As If People Mattered'" for 2024 - Webinar series hosted by MCR-ADMU hub. Website.
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The Walker Institute in the University of Reading relaunches MCRIRG as the ‘My Climate Risk Interdisciplinary Learning Group’, Monday 12th February at 1pm (GMT), Virtual
2023
- CORDEX Southeast Asia workshop, Bangkok from the 22nd to the 24th of November. There was a MCR special session on November 23rd, from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Bangkok time (GMT/UTC+7:00).
- Learning Lab: Democratizing climate science: making it meaningful at local scales. My Climate Risk event at the Open Science Conference, Kigali, Rwanda on October 26, 2023
- A brief report on My Climate Risk at the Open Science Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, October 2023
- All eyes on 'My Climate Risk': Q-storming towards collective pathways to adaptation action, from local to global. 7th Adaptation Futures International Conference. Thursday, 5 October 2023, 16:00-17.30 (EDT).
- Can We Do Better? Climate Science and Colonialism - MCR Education Working Group Series on Climate and Colonialism. 5 and 6 October 2023. See the Event Highlight.
- Leveraging Climate Research and Modeling for Action in the Indo-Pacific region. WCRP My Climate Risk (MCR) Lighthouse Activity at ICRC-CORDEX 2023. Jointly Organized by WCRP (My Climate Risk, Safe Landing Climates), IITM, and CORDEX (South Asia and East Asia). 29 September 2023, 9.00-11.00 IST (Indian Standard Time).
- Experiences of co-production of hydroclimatic knowledge and participative science / Experiencias de coproducción de conocimientos hidroclimáticos y ciencia participativa. My Climate Risk (MCR) - Hub CONICET-Argentina. Fourth webinar in a series entitled "Actionable Climate Knowledge." 27 September 2023, 14:00-15:30 UTC. In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation in English.
- Sources of climate information: How do our values and context influence our choices? / Fuentes de información climática. ¿cómo influyen nuestros valores y contexto? My Climate Risk (MCR) - Hub CONICET-Argentina. Third webinar in a series entitled "Actionable Climate Knowledge." 23 August 2023, 14:00-15:30 UTC. In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation in English.
- The Fungi Economy, Part 3: Can Climate Modeling from Space Save Our Forests? Scientific American. Interview with Regina Rodrigues. 9 August 2023.
- Climate stories: dealing with uncertainty / Relatos del clima: lidiando con la incertidumbre. My Climate Risk (MCR) - Hub CONICET-Argentina. Second webinar in a series entitled "Actionable Climate Knowledge." 25 July 2023, 14:00-15:30 UTC. In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation in English.
- How do we address climate risk? Challenges from an interdisciplinary dialogue. My Climate Risk (MCR) - Hub CONICET-Argentina. First webinar in a series entitled "Actionable Climate Knowledge." 27 June 2023, 14:00-15:30 UTC. In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation in English.
- WCRP My Climate Risk Third General Assembly. 16 May 2023. Online. Report.
- Open Climate Science: A Panel Discussion on the Meanings and Practice of Open Science. My Climate Risk (MCR) - Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) Regional Hub, through the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability. 15 February 2023. Concept Note. Video. News.
2022
- WCRP My Climate Risk Second General Assembly. 21 - 23 November 2022, Online. Report.
- Climate Research "As If People Mattered," A Webinar Series. My Climate Risk (MCR) - Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) Regional Hub, through the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability. 8, 11, and 23 November and 7 December 2022.
- "Climate Voices on the Ground: Perspectives from Different Sectors", A Webinar Series. My Climate Risk (MCR) - Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) Regional Hub, through the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability. 14, 21, and 28 October 2022.
- Workshop on Atmospheric Satellites for Asian Monsoon cloud-precipitation Science and Applications (WASAMSA). Plenary talk: WCRP lighthouse activities, with a particular focus on My Climate Risk, Ted Shepherd. 22 June 2022.
- MPE Virtual Summer School on 'Attribution, causality, and decision-making', 6-10 June 2022
- My Climate Risk General Assembly (Invite Only). 30 May - 2 June 2022. Report.
- Climate risk and uncertainty in India. ICIMOD’s Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) (My Climate Risk Regional Hub). 12 May 2022.
- Developing a ‘storylines’ approach for regional climate change information Presentation on 22 February 2022.
- Risk KAN Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems. Presentation on 10 February 2022.
2021
- American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. WCRP ‘My Climate Risk’ Lighthouse Activity: Inverting the construction of climate information for local-to-regional climate risk. 15 December 2021. 21:30 - 23:00 CET.
- Storying climes of the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic. 9 - 15 October 2021. Online. In partnership with My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity (Programme).
- HUC Summer School - Bringing meaning to statistical practice in climate science using R. 18–26 August 2021. Online and in-person. Lecture by Ted Shepherd. From global to local: bringing meaning to climate change through storylines (20 August 2021) (website)
- Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2021. Session: My Climate Risk. 13 June 2021.
Opportunities
- Open Call for Membership of the My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity Closed 20 April 2022.
More information on World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity visit their website here.