NEWS & EVENTS
Keynote Speech on ICUC
2020.06.10
"Urban Climate Science
for Planning Healthy Cities in Asia"
Dr. Ren attended the 10th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC) co-organized by the NOAA CREST Institute of the City University of New York, The International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) and the AMS Board on the Urban Environment, in which she illustrated the idea of “Science in Time, Science in Place” and explained how to deliver a cross-disciplinary collaboration bridging the scientific world and the community of practice.
News Coverage on South China Morning Post
2020.08.24
"Hong Kong’s hot nights and even hotter days bring higher risk of mortality for women and the elderly, new study finds"
Consecutive hot nights pose a higher risk to public health than hot days, and bring a 6 per cent higher risk of death for women and the elderly, a study by a Hong Kong university has found. The findings came after the Observatory said earlier this month that July was the hottest month the city has experienced since record-keeping began in 1884. “Our study found hot nights increased the risk of death by about 2 to 3 per cent ...