On 22 August 2017, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) signed a new collaborative agreement with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP/CAS) in Chengjiang, Yunnan. The signing ceremony was attended by President Way Kuo, President of CityU, Professor Jiang Zhu, Director of IAP, Professor Chong-Yin Li, Academician, CAS, Professor Johnny Chan of CityU, and Professors Wen Chen and Zi-Niu Xiao of IAP/CAS.
Congratulations to Mr. GUO Jiaxin Eric, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Alicia AN in the School of Energy and Environment (SEE), for receiving the Student Poster Award with a cash prize in the 11th International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM 2017) held in Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA USA, in the period, 29 July – 4 August 2017.
Professor Martin Beniston of The University of Geneva, and former vice chairman of one of the working groups in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), delivered the 5th SEE Colloquium on 10th May, 2017. He is currently leading a major European project (www.acqwa.ch) to study the potential impacts of climate change on the Alps.
Hong Kong (HK), while blessed with beautiful scenic terrain, has not been as well-endowed regarding natural resources – it has modest land suitable for agriculture, no significant rivers or forests, and only a handful of mineral resources.
Tunç Durmaz1 and Aude Pommeret
Eight years on since the United Nations IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its effort in combating climate change, fossil fuel remains the most dominant global energy source.
