The HKUST My Climate Risk Regional Hub

My Climate Risk

My Climate Risk is a Lighthouse Activity of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), sponsored World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) that focuses on developing and mainstreaming a “bottom-up” approach to regional climate risk, an approach that makes climate information meaningful and usable at local and regional decision-making scales.

The initiative emphasises transdisciplinary, context-specific risk assessment, where “risk” is understood as the combination of climate-related hazard, vulnerability, and exposure specific to a given regional context. This approach typically uses case studies, labs, or communities of practice to engage researchers, stakeholders, and decision-makers in co-producing insights and narratives about present risks and plausible future pathways.

Rather than operating through hierarchical global structures, My Climate Risk is implemented as an informal ecosystem of regional hubs—forming a “mycorrhizal network” of nodes that collectively share knowledge, resources, and experience to advance climate risk understanding and locally tailored solutions.