香港測量師學會

編號

2022076

項目名

Disaster Management Series (2) - 氣候變化與我何干? What has climate change to do with me?

學會持續專業發展編號

Formal Events

講師

Dr CHENG Cho Ming
Director of the Hong Kong Observatory

Dr Cheng graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Physics and Mathematics, and subsequently obtained a PhD degree in Physics in 1989. He joined the Hong Kong Observatory in 1989 as a Scientific Officer. From 1990 onwards, he had been involved in weather forecasting, TV weather presentation, hydrometeorology, radar and satellite meteorology, and aerodrome meteorological observing system, etc. He was promoted as the Assistant Director in 2011 to take charge of the Weather Forecasting and Warning Services Branch, responsible for public weather services and development of the Observatory website and “MyObservatory” mobile app, forecasting technique research, etc. Dr Cheng succeeded as the Director of the Hong Kong Observatory in 2020.

日期

2022-05-24

時間

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

註冊截止日期

2022-05-17

有關組別之資格預審前研習小時

1.5

Divisional PQSL Hour(s)

1.5

地點

By online media – ZOOM

部門

PDD

主辦者

Planning & Development Division

費用

Free of charge

名額

Priority will be given to PDD members; First-come-first served.

語言

Cantonese supplemented by English

詳情

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Working Group 1 contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report in August 2021. It stated that it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid change in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. The talk will focus on what we need to know about climate change and what we need to do to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change.

Content:

Climate Change in the past and its impacts
Latest assessment on future change in global climate
Latest assessment on future climate change in Hong Kong
Measures to mitigate the impacts of climate change

Speaker: Dr CHENG Cho Ming

備註

The event will be conducted online via ZOOM. Upon successful registration, the ZOOM link for joining the CPD event will be available in the CPD/PQSL profile under the "Member Area" of the HKIS website.

On-line registration is not applicable for non-HKIS members. To register, please complete the CPD registration form (https://www.hkis.org.hk/en/pdf/Standard_Reservation_Form2020.pdf) and return with payment to the HKIS Secretariat.

Please install the Zoom Application in advance at https://www.zoom.us/download.

For Mobile phones, iPads & Android, install the ZOOM Cloud Meetings app from App Store or Play Store.
For PC and Mac, download and install the Zoom Client for Meetings.

付款

HKD 0

Face-to-Face/Zoom

By Zoom

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