Identifying Health Risks and Opportunities to Prepare China for a Changing Climate (Professor Peng Gong)
- Mar 25
- 1 min read
Updated: May 14
Source: Faculty of Social Science, HKU
Delve into how the health and climate change project led by our professor from the Department of Geography identifies most vulnerable communities in China, develops an indicator system to track climate-related health impacts and informs national heatwave protection and health adaptation policies for a healthier and more resilient society.
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Context
Hong Kong’s power sector accounts for over 66% of the city’s carbon emissions. Globally, climate change is the defining health crisis of the 21st century.
Research
Prof. Peng Gong’s team produced FROM-GLC (world-first global 30m land-cover product) and FROM-GLC10, used to model land–climate–health interactions globally.
Reach into Policy & Practice
Co-chair of eight Lancet Commission reports on climate-and-health.
Earth Commission and Future Earth adviser.
Project Coordinator for the HK$30M Strategic Topics Grant (2024/25) building an Interactive Science-Informed Decision Model (ISIDM) for Hong Kong's power sector decarbonisation.
Significance
From open-access global land-cover data to the Lancet Countdown’s annual evidence syntheses, Prof. Gong’s work demonstrates how Earth-observation science shapes global health and climate policy.
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