Asian Urban Environment and Climate Change: Preface
Julian Hunt , Jianping Wu
DOI:10.1016/j.jes.2017.07.019
Received January 01, 1900,Revised January 01, 1900, Accepted January 01, 1900, Available online July 29, 2017
Volume 29,2017,Pages 1-5
The Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology (www.ancst.org), in collaboration
with Tsinghua University, held a conference on environmental and climate science, air
pollution, urban planning and transportation in July 2015, with over 40 Asian experts
participating and presentation. This was followed by a meeting with local government and
community experts on the practical conclusions of the conference. Of the papers presented
at the conference a selection are included in this special issue of Journal of Environmental
Science, which also reflects the conclusions of the Paris Climate meeting in Dec 2015, when
the major nations of the world agreed about the compelling need to reduce the upward
trend of adverse impacts associated with global climate change. Now is the time for urban
areas to work out the serious consequences for their populations, but also how they should
work together to take action to reduce global warming to benefit their own communities
and also the whole planet!
