Hosted and organized by the Hong Kong Climate Change Forum (HKCCF), this conference will be an important platform focusing on urban climate impacts, adaptation and resilience options. It will bring together distinguished scientists, policy makers, business leaders, climate experts and their Asian counterparts to share approaches, best practice methods and results. We will explore the challenges and opportunities and the way forward for Hong Kong, the Pearl River Delta (PRD) and Asia’s major cities where climate impacts are increasingly observable and adaptation actions are increasingly required.We are delighted to welcome Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Nobel Laureate as our keynote speaker; along with other distinguished IPCC scientific authors.