Members of the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) community are being celebrated on the international stage, with four current students and alumni featured in the latest exhibition at Hong Kong’s Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change (MoCC) — the world’s first dedicated climate change museum.
The exhibition, “Ignite the Future: A New Generation of Climate Action,” opened on 15 December 2025 and runs until 28 February 2026. It highlights the stories of ten young climate changemakers from five continents, sharing their experiences of tackling environmental challenges and driving transformative social and ecological change.
Among the featured ECI community members are:
- Natalie Chung (ECM MPhil, 2021), currently pursuing a PhD in Climate Policy at Princeton University
- Joshua Steib (current ECM student)
- Junior Mbangala (ECM MSc, 2024) currently a Doctoral Researcher (DPhil) in Urban Development at the University of Oxford
- Rose Kobusinge (ECM MSc, 2020)
- Max Han (ECM MSc, 2025), currently pursuing a Master’s in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, at the University of Oxford
The ECM (Environmental Change and Management) programme is a Master’s course at ECI that equips students with interdisciplinary skills to understand and respond to environmental change, combining research, policy, and practical action. From October 2026, the course will evolve into the ECP (Environmental Change and Policy), reflecting a strengthened focus on the policy dimensions of environmental change. Several of the exhibition’s changemakers are ECM students or alumni, demonstrating how the programme nurtures leaders in climate science, sustainability, and climate policy.
Natalie Chung, the inaugural Museum of Climate Change Scholar, co-curated the exhibition based on insights from her participation in the Dr Sylvia Earle Antarctic Climate Expedition and from attending COP30 in Brazil in 2025. The exhibition tells inspiring stories of the next generation of climate leaders, including those from ECI, showing how young people are shaping climate policy and environmental action worldwide.
Natalie Chung said: “Every changemaker I met brought a courage and almost stubborn hope that became the heartbeat of this exhibition.”
Max Han added: “I’m grateful to be part of this stubbornly optimistic generation fighting for a just and regenerative future. Youth-led climate justice began long before us, and will continue to endure through our collective imagination and action toward a better world.”
The exhibition is both in-person and virtual, with profiles of all ten changemakers available online: MoCC Virtual Exhibition.
Find out more about Natalie’s journey and the curation of “Ignite the Future,” in her blog: From Docent to Curator: Elevating a New Generation of Climate Leaders at Hong Kong’s Museum of Climate Change.
