In February, 2022, the Clean Air Student Council successfully continued the annual Hong Kong Clean Air Conference under the theme of “Tackling Air Pollution and its Effects in Urban Communities”. Icebreakers, educational games, and talks from contemporary figures in the fight against air pollution were all key highlights from the conference. A total of 50 people from both international and local schools participated in this conference, fully engaging with the activities set up by the newly established Education team and Events team.
The speakers invited were, Natalie Chung, a climate advocate and social entrepreneur born and raised in Hong Kong and Hermione Au, co-founder of a participatory design studio Baak6Zou6 and a founding member of Street Reset, a citizen-driven advocacy group on human-centric street design.
Many participants of the conference also took part in the Hong Kong Environmental Writer’s Competition by writing essays under the same theme of “Tackling Air Pollution and its Effects in Urban Communities”. The winners, who were adjudicated by professional environmentalists and announced at the end of the conference, shared their insights and ideas with all participants.
Speakers
Hermione Au
Graduate from MSc Urban Design and City Planning of UCL, Hermion devotes herself to human-centered urban and community design. She is now the Lab Manager of JC MaD Social Lab and experienced in collaborative design with different stakeholders including government, citizens and community organisations. She is also a co-founder of participatory design studio Baak6Zou6 and a founding member of Street Reset, a citizen-driven advocacy group on human-centric street design.
Natalie Chung
Natalie Chung Sum Yue is a climate advocate and social entrepreneur born and raised in Hong Kong. Inspired by a polar explorer since young, Natalie devotes her life to climate action and environmental education. At the age of 18, she co-founded V’air Hong Kong, a social enterprise which promotes low-carbon local tourism as means to mitigate climate change. V'air has held over 100 tours and educational programmes for schools and corporate to inculcate values of ecocentrism and nature appreciation among the public. As an impactful sustainability leader in Asia Pacific, she has been awarded the Tatler Gen.T List, Eco-Business Youth A-List. Natalie holds an MPhil in Environmental Change and Management (Distinction) at University of Oxford and a BSSc in Geography and Resource Management (First Class Honours) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was awarded a full scholarship for her postgraduate studies at Oxford as the 2019 Esther Yewpick Lee Millennium Scholar.