Biography: Prof. Chao Ren is a Professor at the University of Hong Kong. She specializes in climate responsive design, applied climatology, and urban-scale climate change and health. She has contributed to several international collaborative research reports as a lead author, including the IPCC AR6, Climate Change and Cities ARC3.3, the 7th Global Environment Outlook, The United in Science 2023 , the China Annual Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and the 5th China National Assessment Report on Climate Change. She has been named in the World’s Top 2% of Scientists List by Stanford University and Top 1% Scholars by Clarivate. Chao is co-Chief Editor for Urban Climate since 2024. She serves on the management committee of the Global Heat Health Information Network, a joint initiative of the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization, and the steering committee of the Health Knowledge-Action Network of Future Earth.
Speech title: My 20 years (2006-2026) Urban Heat Island research