The Office for Climate Change Adaptation Coordination is responsible for making coordinative and cooperative arrangements with various climate change survey and research institutions, the Local Climate Change Adaptation Centers, and other organizations to promote climate change adaptation. The Office gathers and organizes various internal and external data on climate change impact and adaptation as well as study results from the Research Sections, and fully integrates and applies them in supporting the prefectural and municipal governments’ formulation of their climate change adaptation plans, and providing technical assistance with their plan implementation, jointly with the Research Sections.
The Climate Change Impacts Monitoring Research Section is responsible for developing climate change impact monitoring systems that are capable of measuring the effects that climate change has had on the natural ecosystems and social systems across Asia-Pacific including Japan, and for conducting necessary observation projects. This Research Section also gathers and organizes past observation data to identify any changes occurring over the long term and analyze their relations to climate change. The Research Section also conducts survey and research projects to elucidate the mechanism through which the effects of climate change arise and impact us.
The Climate Change Impacts Assessment Research Section is responsible for innovating climate change impact evaluation methods applicable to various areas of interest, and for actually evaluating the effects of climate change based on the latest climate scenarios and socio-economic scenarios globally as well as in Asia-Pacific and Japan specifically, while comparing the different outcomes that arise depending on whether or not adaptation measures are implemented. This Research Section also develops systems for predicting climate change scenarios and effects that occur globally and domestically.
The Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Research Section is responsible for formulation of adaptation strategies that reflect social changes and regional characteristics based on the observed and predicted effects of climate change and the results of adaptation measure assessment, facilitation of such strategy implementation, and performance of research conducive to evidence-based policy making (EBPM) in the areas of adaptation. This Research Section also aids national and local adaptation measure implementation mainly in Japan, and gathers, organizes, analyzes, and provides climate change adaptation data, which includes operation of the Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform (A-PLAT).
The Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Research Section is responsible for obtaining and sharing scientific knowledge on the wide-ranging effects of climate change that impact Asia-Pacific, with the aim of aiding the national and local governments of the countries in the region with their decision making, taking into account various climate change risks, and also effective adaptation to climate change. In addition, this Research Section develops practical partnerships through which scientific knowledge and useful tools are cocreated with other organizations, while operating and constantly improving the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform (AP-PLAT).
