Date: Saturday, October 12, 2019 Time: 10am to 4pm Venue: Deloitte Asia Pacific, 35/F One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong The United Nations will hold a global Climate Summit in late September in New York City. We plan to hold our own Climate Summit in Hong Kong, as an echo event, by inviting environmental activists across the campuses and general NGOs in HK to meet in Admiralty to explore the potential for collective action on climate change. How can we assure that HK meets the commitments we made for carbon reduction in the Paris Accords in December 2015? We said we'd reduce carbon by 20% by 2020. Will we do it? Who is responsible to achieve this target? Let's do our bit in the coming year! Green groups from all universities, colleges and secondary schools in HK are invited to share their ideas for grass roots activities. Individual participants are also welcome. Many self-organizing break-out groups will focus on climate topics you care about. Come to the Climate Summit in HK, meet your counterparts across the campuses, and explore pathways for collective action! We support the YOUNGO (http://www.youthpolicy.org/), a global youth movement for climate action under SDG 13 and the sustainable development solutions network (SDSN) reduce carbon in HK. Program: 10:00 Opening and introductions in the Global Café, Glenn Shive, HKAC 10:30 Climate Summitry: Hong Kong in Global Action on the Paris Accords, Robert Gibson, HKUST 11:00 Pop-Up Presentations on Climate Change Actions in HK in 2019 - 2020 11:15 Introduction to Open Space (OS), Mark Pixley, Leadership Inc. 11:45 OS theme groups meet 1 12:30 Lunch break (courtesy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation) 1:15 (OS) Theme groups meet 2 2:00 Campus groups meet about climate action 2:30 Cross - campus groups meet about climate action 3:15 Reports to the whole from the Open Space theme groups and campus action groups 3:45 Open Space closing circle 4:00 Adjourn For more information please contact Pauline Lau (paulinelau@hk-ac.org.hk or telephone: 3943-8748). ***Note that registration requires a HK$300 deposit with the HKAC to hold your place. This deposit will be returned to you in full upon completion of the program on Saturday, October 12, 2019.*** ***You may pay your HK$300 refundable deposit in cash at the HKAC office, or via Faster Payment System (FPS), or mail your check to the below address.*** If you have Faster Payment System (轉數快), you can pay at FPS60713484 and send us an email regarding the payment to Ms. Pauline Lau (paulinelau@hk-ac.org.hk). If you want to pay in person/via check, our address is: Hong Kong America Center Room 503, Esther Lee Building Chung Chi Road, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR.