Climate Change Adaptation Actand related activities in Japan
November 6th, 2018
The 24th AIM International Workshop
Session 7: Impact and Adaptation (2)Climate Change Strategy Collaboration Office/Regional Environmental Impact Assessment Section,
Center for Social and Environmental Systems Research

Kazutaka Oka

Outline
1. Introduction
2. Climate Change Adaptation Act
3. Development of adaptation information infrastructure
3.1 A-PLAT (Climate Change Adaptation InformationPlatform)
3.2 AP-PLAT (Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation
Information Platform)
4. Summary2

1. Introduction•

Climate change has already been observed globally and locally (alsoin Japan) and posed severe impacts on our nature and society. Thus,taking steps toward adaptation is very important to mitigate and avoid
such impacts.

•Activities related to adaptation in Japan:
 1st National Adaptation Plan (NAP) in 2015
 Climate Change Adaptation Act
 was enacted in June, 2018
 will be enforced in December, 2018•

Activities related to adaptation at NIES: Development of information platform (A-PLAT and AP-PLAT) Adaptation program started at NIES since FY 2018•

“Center for Climate Change Adaptation” will be established in Dec.
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2. Climate Change Adaptation Act (outline)42. Climate Change Adaptation Act
Purpose (Article 1)
Purpose of this Act is to promote climate change adaptation, thereby contributing to thehealth and cultural life of the Japanese people, both now and in the future.
Definitions (Article 2)
 Climate change impacts: life, economy and natural environment posed by climate change Climate change adaptation: measures to prevent or mitigate its adverse effects to ensure steady life,sound growth of society and economy or to conserve natural environment

Each actor’s roleClarify roles played bycentral/local government,businesses and citizens(Article3-6)

・Formulate and promote policies and measures
・Establish of systems to collect, analyze and provide data

CentralGov.

Local gov.
・Promote adaptationaccording to local conditions;
・Provide information topromote adaptation measuresof local businesses; etc.

Promotesiby Actors

Business

・Adaptation in business;
・Involved in national & local
adaptation

Citizen・Better understanding of adaptation;
・Involved in national & local adaptation

52. Climate Change Adaptation ActAdaptation Planning & Impact Assessment
Formulation of NAP (Article 7)

National government shall formulate NAP to promote adaptation in each sector
 Develop collaborative efforts involving Central & Local Gov, Business, Citizens
 Promote effective measures in sectors based on reliable and detailed information
Based on scientific findings of impact projections …
•Food products with high-temperature-resistant varieties•Set up fishing grounds according to its travel route•Maintain flood control facility•Develop flood risk maps.
•Promote heat illness prevention measures and so on Develop of evaluation methodologies (Article 9)Develop Methodologies to evaluate the progress of adaptation under NAP
 Climate Change Impact Assessments (Article 10)
MoEJ shall conduct impact assessments every 5 years.
Formulate or revise NAP
NAP needs to be revised accordingly (Article 8).
ImpactAssessment
Plan Collaboration with other policy (Article 15)
every 5years
Promote adaptation by collaborating withrelevant polices including disasterAction
DoImprove
theplan
Implement
measuresprevention, promotion of agriculture,
Developforestry and fisheries and biodiversity
Checkevaluationconservation (incorporation of adaptation
methodologiesSurvey & evaluate progress6
to existing measures).

2. Climate Change Adaptation Act
Promote adaptation in local areas
Local climate change adaptation plans (Article 12)

According to NAP, municipalities should formulate local adaptation plans (LAPs) (collaborative plans areacceptable).

Climate change adaptation center (Article 12)

Municipalities are encouraged to appoint a Local Climate Change Adaptation Center as a hub forcollecting, organizing, analyzing and providing local climate change data (collaborative centers are acceptable).

Climate change regional council (Article 13)

Local stakeholders can organize Climate Change Regional Councils to promote adaptation
measures locally in cooperation with local governments, climate change adaptation centers andbusinesses (secretariat: MoEJ local branches).
 The government should provide
Regional Council (6 regions )information to promote
adaptation measures of local
Appoint
governments (Article 19).
Local
government

information &technical advices

adaptation center

requestcooperation

NIES

documents,
explanation
Local Branches of thegovernment

Businesses etc.

National research
institutes773. Development of adaptation information infrastructure
A-PLATfor Japan2015
Nov.

Nov.27 2015
NationalAdaptation
Plan of Japan

2016
AprilTrial
Test site,
Logo design,Etc.

AP-PLATfor AsiaPacificAugust2017

LaunchedMarch
Renewal
Map viewer

2018
COP23

Demonstration

March
Individuals
renewalDec.
Adaptation
Business8

3.1 A-PLAT(Climate Change Adaptation
Information Platform)

9Climate Change Adaptation Act

５. Development of adaptation information infrastructure (Article 11）
Appoint NIES as the core of information infrastructure for adaptation
NIES shall collect, organize, analyze and provide information related to climate changeimpacts and adaptation
NIES shall provide technical advices to local governments

Technical advice

collaboration
National research
institutes*Agriculture, DRR & others

NIES

Share Infor.

Example of the main contents of A-PLAT

http://www.adaptation-platform.nies.go.jp/index.html

Projection ofRice yields*high quality

Projection ofDisappearing
beach<period> end of the 21st century (2081-2100) <scenario> with strict mitigation (RCP2.6)

Local government

Local adaptation
center*local universities &research institutes

NIES shall consider

the utility of
information aboutclimate change
impacts providedby citizens1010Climate Change Adaptation Platform (A-PLAT)•A-PLAT (Climate Change Adaptation Platform) is a ”One-stop” online
resource for adaptation to climate-change impacts in Japan.
 Aims at being a basis for adaptation actions of local governments,businesses, and citizens.
 Collects and provides climate risk information and best practices;develops tools to promote adaptation actions.
 Operated by the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
with cooperation of relevant ministries.
 Stakeholders of A-PLAT are Local Government
 Private Sectors
 Individuals & Communities

11Outline of A-PLAT
Consists of 6 key sections

Key pages are:
1. What’s Climate Change Adaptation?
2. National Adaptation Plan
3. National & Local impact Info.
4. For stakeholders(local government, private sectors,citizens)
5. Tools and Links
6. English site
http://www.adaptation-platform.nies.go.jp/
12National and local impact information• Future climate projections and quantitative climate-change impact
assessment by prefecture level
Index: Rice yield (quality oriented)
Period: the end of 21th

RCP2.6

RCP8.513

National and local impact information

Modelby meteorological agency

・ MRI-AGCM3.2S NHRCM05

Scenario
・ RCP 8.5Period
・ End of the 21 centuryIndices・ Temperature
・ Maximum Temperature
・ Minimum Temperature
・ Precipitation
・ Snow amonts
・ Snow depth

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Information for stakeholders
 Local Governments
List of adaptation plansby local gov.

 Private Sector
Municipal Adaptation
Planning Guideline• Climate risk
• Adaptation BusinessInterview

 Individuals

Business workshop (1. Nov 2017)
156 participants

153.2 AP-PLAT(Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation
Information Platform)

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Climate Change Adaptation Act
７. Promotion within & without Japan
 Promote International cooperation (Article 18)•Develop system for sharing information• Promote technical transfer regarding adaptation indeveloping areas

 Better understanding by private sectors andcitizens (Article 17)•Promote activities of dissemination andeducation for better understanding

Information on climate risks
in developing countries

Rice yield projectionin Indonesia

Flood projectionin Philippine

Asia-Pacificregion

AP-PLAT (Asia-Pacific Adaptation Climate
Change Adaptation Platform) Promote adaptation business (Article 19)•Encourage private sectors to adapt•Promote Adaptation business

Risk management
under climate change

Climate change asopportunity to developnew market
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Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform
Announced the launch of AP-PLAT at COP2218

Introduction of a demonstration website of AP-PLAT

A tentative version of the AP-PLAT for a demonstration at COP23

http://www.adaptation-platform.nies.go.jp/en/ap-plat/
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Introduction of a demonstration website of AP-PLAT

Annual mean temperature in the end of 21th century predicted by MIROC-ESM-CHEM which
has been cooperatively developed by the University of Tokyo, NIES, and JAMSTEC withRepresentative Concentration Pathways 8.5 (RCP8.5)

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Introduction of a demonstration website of AP-PLAT

Water-stressed population based on the Falkenmark indicator (water resources per capita:m³/year/capita) in the end of 21th century used MIROC-ESM-CHEM climate prediction output
with Representative Concentration Pathways 8.5 (RCP8.5).

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Introduction of a demonstration website of AP-PLATNational Adaptation planning in each country

Under development☜ Click

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Introduction of a demonstration website of AP-PLAT
Financial Information

GCF, GEF, CTCN etc.

Under development

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4. Summary•Now we are in the very important phase to take step toward adaptation.
 Climate Change Adaptation Act
 was enacted in June, 2018
 will be enforced in December, 2018•

NIES contributes to promote adaptation activities by research anddisseminative activities:
 Development of information platform (A-PLAT and AP-PLAT) Adaptation program started at NIES since FY 2018•

“Center for Climate Change Adaptation” will take a lead in promotion ofadaptation activities in Japan.

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