City University of Hong Kong
Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre,
Asia Network on Climate Science and Technology &
Hong Kong Climate Change Forum
Workshop
Date: 15 April 2015 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Venue: B5-208, 5/F., Academic Building 1 (AC1), City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
This is an important year for climate change, with the UNFCC meeting in Paris this December discussing how to tackle climate change. To bring more awareness to this problem, especially with regard to the impact of climate change on cities, the Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre of City University of Hong Kong is co-organizing a half-day workshop with the Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Climate Change Forum to address this issue. The workshop consists of talks by Hong Kong and overseas scientists.
The detailed programme is listed below.
14:00 – 14:25 Registration
14:25 – 14:30 Opening Remarks
Climate change science
14:30 – 15:00
Air-sea Climate Processes in the Tropics – Third ANCST Workshop at Bangalore, India, November 2014 – Professor Lord Julian Hunt, University College London, UK
Regional climate change
15:00 – 15:20 Downscaling Climate Change Signals to Urban Environments – Professor Gabriel Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong
15:20 – 15:40The Contribution of Urban Traffic to Climate Change and Environment – Case Study Beijing – Professor Jianping Wu, Tsinghua University
15:40 – 16:00 Seasonal Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Landfall – Professor Johnny Chan, City University of Hong Kong
16:00 – 16:20 Tea break
16:20 – 16:40 Detection of Droughts under the Conditions of Climate Change in South China – Dr. Ji Chen, University of Hong Kong
16:40 – 17:00 Assessment of Future Drought in China Based on CMIP5 Multimodel Projections – Dr. Wen Zhou, City University of Hong Kong
Climate change adaptation
17:00 – 17:20 The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report 2014 – Key Findings for Asia – Professor Joy Pereira, SEADPRI-UKM, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
17:20 – 17:30 Closing remarks
Registration
The workshop is free of charge but because of limited space, registration is required.
Please click here to register
Enquiry: gcacic@cityu.edu.hk (email)
3442 7359 (Tel.)
