The 2025 Hong Kong Climate Forum, co-organised by the Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality (ICCN) at the University of Hong Kong and the Environment and Ecology Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), officially opened this morning. The two-day event brings together government representatives, experts, scholars, and industry leaders from around the world to discuss the challenges posed by climate change and explore mitigation measures. Participants will also exchange how Hong Kong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) can leverage green technology, green finance, and policy support to unlock vast opportunities through innovative practices.

The event, held by FAPESP and the German Research Foundation (DFG) from March 25th to 26th at the Free University of Berlin, aims to strengthen ties between researchers from the state of São Paulo and the European country in order to promote research partnerships.

School will tackle challenges to monitoring and regulation of these substances that pose sanitary and environmental threats through the use of pesticides, legal and illict drugs, micro(nano)plastics, etc. Applicants may submit until April 20.

The International Space Station (ISSInternational Space Station) National Laboratory is launching a bold new way to bring the excitement of space-based research down to Earth—introducing Between a Rocket & a Hard Space, the official ISS National Lab podcast. This podcast series dives deep into the discoveries, innovations, and people shaping the future of space, with the first episode now available.