A Tribute to Edwin Lau’s 36-year Environmental Journey

Mr Leung Wing Mo was an Assistant Director of the Hong Kong Observatory before his retirement in 2011. His scope of work then included, amongst others, weather forecasting, climatology, and radiation monitoring and assessment.
He was appointed to various advisory bodies of the government, including the Slope Safety Communication Strategic Advisory Committee, Museum Advisory Committee and the Council for Sustainable Development.
Mr Leung is actively involved in environmental and climate change issues in Hong Kong and helped formulate the long-term decarbonization strategy in Hong Kong.
Mr Leung is an adjunct professor of both the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He is currently the Chairman of the Guangdong Nuclear Safety Consultative Committee, spokeperson of the Hong Kong Meteorological Society, member of Board of Directors of the environmental groups “The Green Earth” and “Conservation E3 Foundation” (CE3), member of the Hong Kong Red Cross Council as well as its Emergency Preparedness and Response Strategic Committee.
Mr Leung is also a TV personality both as the first professional meteorologist in Hong Kong to host local TV weather programmes, and the host of the popular science education programme MObservatory (武測天) of TVB. A total of some 400 episodes of MObservatory were aired between 2018 and 2023.

My Sustainability Goals for 2025:

Cutting down both per capita municipal wastes as well as carbon emission.