Climate Change Administration

Cecil Konijnendijk is one of the world's leading urban forestry experts. He advised UN organizations as well as national and local governments in over 30 countries on their greening programs. In early 2021 he launched the 3+30+300 principle, a planning guideline for greener and healthier communities that has had a global impact.

Dr. Sheng-Yang Wang is a Lifetime Distinguished Professor in the Department of Forestry at National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) and Dean of the university’s College of Circular Economy. He earned his Ph.D. from National Taiwan University and is one of Taiwan’s leading phytochemists. He specializes in applying chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques to the qualitative and quantitative analysis of natural products. As of February 2023, his Google Scholar profile reported 12,269 citations, including 5,050 in the preceding five years, an h-index of 58, and an i10-index of 181. He was first named among the world’s top 2% of scientists in the Stanford University–led citation rankings in November 2021 and continued to appear in the rankings each year through 2025. Dr. Wang’s teaching and research focus on natural resource conservation and sustainable forestry. His laboratory pursues three main lines of research.

1. Development of new methods for the isolation and structural elucidation of natural products.

2. Investigation of the medicinal potential of plants native to Taiwan.

3. Functional genomics of woody plants.

Marie-Noëlle Keijzer co-founded and leads WeForest, which has restored 100,000+ hectares across Africa, nearly four times Taipei City, grown 110 million trees, supported 500,000+ people and become a UN World Restoration Flagship at COP17. Her ambition: put forests at the heart of climate decisions, as the guardians of humanity’s water.

Mr. CHUAH Hock Seong is former Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Planning at Singapore’s National Parks Board and Senior Director of the Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology. He has 45 years of experience in landscape planning, development, and management, with expertise in urban greening, ecological balance, and professional training.

Professor Chih-Da Wu at National Cheng Kung University specializes in geospatial artificial intelligence and spatial data science for air pollution modeling, environmental health, and urban carbon sequestration, advancing smart cities and sustainability through interdisciplinary research.

Founder of Green Hope Spring, member of Taiwan’s National Urban Forest Promotion Committee, and doctoral student at National Taitung University. Dedicated to planting trees for the Earth, believing in the right trees, the right places, and the right people—and that every tree deserves its own story.

Tzu-Ping Lin is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Architecture at National Cheng Kung University. His research focuses on urban heat islands, outdoor thermal comfort, climate adaptation, heat-risk assessment, and the cooling benefits of urban forests.