Chinese University teams up with University of Exeter to launch joint research project on climate change and meat eating in China
The HK$20 million Joint Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Resilience will look for solutions to global problems
A Hong Kong and British university have teamed up to build a HK$20 million (US$2.5 million) joint research centre in the city that will focus on finding solutions to climate and environmental change, and their affect on public health.
On the research agenda is a comprehensive survey of how dietary changes in China, which consumes 28 per cent of the world’s meat, are affecting the global environment.
Professor Gavin Shaddick, co-director of the Chinese University–University of Exeter Joint Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Resilience, said collaboration between different academic disciplines was needed to tackle modern global environmental challenges.
“By working together to understand local problems, and how local problems are essentially part of a much bigger global eco-structure, we might start to understand how we might make mitigation or policies both on a global level and an individual one,” Shaddick, the chairman of data science and statistics at the University of Exeter, said.
He cited issues such as cross-border air pollution and flood risks as mutual challenges faced by both cities.