Huang Luxin
(credit: CAUPD)
It is with great sadness that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the sudden death of Huang Luxin on 1 June 2013 at the age of 48.
Huang Luxin was a Lead Author for IPCC Working Group III in the current assessment cycle. He contributed to Chapter 12 on Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning. During this time, he was the director of the Department of International Cooperation and Development at the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (CAUPD) in Beijing, where he worked for the past 27 years.
Born in 1965, Huang Luxin received his Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Tongjin University, Shanghai, and his Master of Science in Urban Planning from the University of Hong Kong. He was Secretary-General of the Academic Committee of Foreign Studies in Urban Planning (ACoFSUP), a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban Planning International, as well as board member of the Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC) and the Pacific Rim Council of Urban Development (PRCUD).
Luxin will be greatly missed by his colleagues and fellow authors in the IPCC.