MY CLIMATE RISK

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. 

HKUST Institute for the Environment has been working on projects that reverberate the ideas of My Climate Risk:

• Events

• News

• Publications

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. 

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.

• The Walker Institute in the University of Reading relaunches MCRIRG as the ‘My Climate Risk Interdisciplinary Learning Group’, Monday 12^th 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.

Last Updated: 26 February 2024

More information on World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity visit their website here.

Publications 

HKUST documents and publications:

WCRP documents and publications:

Publications

• Mapping the Climate Risk Landscape of the Diamer–Basha Dam in Pakistan: A Storyline Approach, 04 March 2025. Natural Resources Forum. 

• Climate storylines as a tool for interdisciplinary dialogue on risk decision-making: Analyzing a severe drought in southeastern South America, (2024) Environmental Science and Policy 160.
• Using the Implementation Centric Evolving Climate Change Adaptation Process to bridge the gap between policy and action, Walker Institute, 6 October 2023.
• Shepherd, T.G. and Truong, C.H. (2023) ‘Storylining Climes’, in Smyer Yü, D., & Wouters J. J.P. (eds) Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic. London: Routledge, pp. 157–183.
• Singh, V. (2023) ‘Not Just the Science. A Transdisciplinary Pedagogy for Cryospheric Climes’, in Smyer Yü, D., & Wouters J. J.P. (eds) Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic. London: Routledge, pp. 184–200.
• Small is beautiful: climate-change science as if people mattered, PNAS Nexus, 2022, 1, 1–9.

Meeting and Workshop Reports

• Outcome Report for the My Climate Risk Learning Lab at the Open Science Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, October 2023.

General Assembly Reports

• WCRP My Climate Risk Fifth General Assembly. Oct-Nov 2024. Online 
• WCRP My Climate Risk Fourth General Assembly. May 2024. Online.
• WCRP My Climate Risk Third General Assembly. 16 May 2023. Online
• WCRP My Climate Risk Second General Assembly. Report. 21 - 23 November 2022, Online.
• WCRP My Climate Risk First General Assembly. Report. 30 May - 2 June 2022, Online.

Media

• WCRP ‘My Climate Risk’ Lighthouse Activity is glowing and growing. WCRP News Article. March 2023.
• WCRP Insights on the My Climate Risk Hubs. May 2022.

Science Planning

• My Climate Risk - Draft Science Plan - developed by the MCR Science Plan Development Team (June 2021)
• My Climate Risk - Outline (April 2020)

Strategy and Organization

• Strategic-Scientific Plan, Argentina Hub, 2024
• My Climate Risk - Structure and Membership

Last Updated: 06 March 2025