The 12th Annual Meeting of the Australia-China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management (ACC-AQSM) was held in Hong Kong for the first time on 25 October 2026 and concluded successfully. Centered on the theme, “Living with Fire and Smoke: Landscape Fires in the Age of Climate Change,” the meeting brought together leading experts, scholars, and policymakers from China, Australia, and beyond to exchange insights on the scientific, health, and policy dimensions of landscape fires in a changing climate. This year’s meeting was hosted at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University by Chair Professor GUO Hai, Co-Director (Hong Kong) of the ACC-AQSM, and was supported by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS).
The conference was honored to welcome Prof. DING Xiaoli, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Environment; Ms. LIU Bing, Deputy Consul-General (Commercial) & Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner - Hong Kong and Macau; CAS Academician Prof. ZHU Tong of Peking University; Prof. Lidia MORAWSKA, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Prof. Ralf ZIMMERMANN, a world-renowned expert in mass spectrometry from Germany; as well as other distinguished scholars from China and Australia. Through a series of keynote and invited presentations, speakers shared cutting-edge research findings and explored future directions for scientific research and bilateral collaboration from the perspectives of atmospheric science, health impacts, and policy responses.
For more details, please visit the event website:
https://events.polyu.edu.hk/asaaq2026/accaqsm2026
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