Weather and Climate Service with Cutting-Edge Technologies
for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction

Shoichi TATENO
Public Private Partnership, Corporate Development
Weathernews Inc. (WNI)
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Contents● WNI in Brief and Background● Climate Change Mitigation● Climate Change Adaptation● Conclusion for Today

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The Origin of WNIJanuary 1970, an explosive low-pressure system hit theport of Onahama, Japan, and lives of 15 crew on thevessel has lost.
“If there had been really useful weather information,maybe this accident could have been prevented.”
Weathernews Inc. was established with a sense ofresponsibility and will of company founder Hiro
Ishibashi in 1986.
Since then, our “Risk Communication service” have
expanded to cover all types of business and our daily
lives.

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WNI in Figures

FoundedStock Listing
Headquarters
Consolidated Sales
Number of Employees
Number of Offices

11 June 1986
Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st（4825)
Chiba, Japan (Global Center)approx. 170 million USD（May 2021）
1101（May 2021）
32 offices in 21 countries (7 Operation Centers)

Approx. 200 Forecasters & 250 IT Experts
2,500 BtoB customers in 50 countries
20 Million Downloads of Smartphone App
180,000 Weather Reports from users / Day
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Global Markets

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Global Markets

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PPE in Japan
Japan Meteorological Agency

PublicWeather ServicePrivate
Weather Information Exchange
Platform

Weather Forecast& Warning

Weather Forecast
Warning Dissemination
Solutions for Risks

Basic Observation

Original Observation& Data from Customers(Official Announcement)(interactive communication)

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Background
Major natural disaster were caused by meteorological phenomena

References: “Economic Losses, Poverty & DISASTERS 1998-2017” by CRED & UNISDR
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Climate Change Mitigation
WNI provides solutions that leverage the weather and climate to help companies both maximize theirbusiness profits and reduce their environmental impact through innovative technologies for forecasting
and big data analysis.
| CO2 Reduction by Optimum Ship Routing (OSR)WNI provides global ship routing services which optimize both engine speed
and fuel consumption. Along with safety support services, WNI is challenging
in monitoring and visualizing CO2 reduction, and in fact, the Optimum Ship
Routing service has contributed to the reduction of 2.8 million MT of CO2 fromJune 2018 to May 2019.
A new service called “Carbon Intensity Monitoring” converts the amount of fuelconsumption reduced through OSR into CO2 reduction. Accurately
understanding “how much environmental impact reduction was achieved”
through these weather and climate services will lead to the promotion of CO2emission reduction by industries.
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Climate Change Mitigation| Power Supply and Demand Planning Support
In the field of energy, WNI has developed an electricity demand forecast
using proprietary AI technology and sensory observed data. This system
can accurately forecast region-specific power demand and support theefficient operation and energy conservation of companies.

| Reduce Food Waste with Supply/Demand Forecast
Demand and supply planning support service is also utilized in thedistribution and retail markets closely related to weather and climateinformation. Especially for an issue of food waste, predicting future demandwith weather/climate risk analysis can avoid excess production waste in thesupply chain. WNI provides a proprietary and innovative optimizationengine that predicts consumer behavior based on the weather condition.
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Climate Change Adaptation| Services for Transportation Infrastructure
In order to prevent and avoid traffic disruption by disaster as much as
possible with limited resources, it is important to take efficient measuresand methods. WNI has helped companies manage public transportationinfrastructure, such as shipping, airways, road, and railways, by providingthem solutions to weather related risks for a long time. The services includes
high resolution weather forecast and prediction of weather risks, and theyminimize the damages on transportation from natural disasters.

| Weather Forecast with User Communities
In recent years, there have been more cases of severe phenomena such as
torrential rain, typhoons, heat wave and heavy snow caused by climatechange, and demand for more localized weather forecast is increasing.
Building up the resilient communities to mitigate disasters, the power ofcitizens is indispensable. WNI is making weather forecast in communication
with mobile app users called “Weather Reporters” since 2005, and theaccuracy of forecast achieves over 90%.
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AI Chatbot for DRR
AI Chatbot for disaster prevention is programmed and developed on the communication
platform of “LINE” Smartphone App. The project is under the Cross-ministerial Strategic
Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) of Japanese government.
Customized informationfrom AI Chatbot/Government

Collecting and organizing informationfrom citizens (victims)

AIChatbotLINEApp-Optimize the communication between government and citizen
Share the information on warning and evacuation immediately
Grasp the situation of damage/recovery accurately for both sides
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Collaboration with UNESCO in DRR
In collaboration with UNESCO, Weathernews
attempts to contribute to disaster prevention in
East African nations by collecting and providing
information related to disasters through mutualcommunication with users by utilizing the LINE
messaging app platform, which is most used inJapan as well as other countries.
Effective PPP framework with local governments is
also required to manage the project sustainable.

https://en.unesco.org/news/project-launch-strengthening-disaster-prevention-approaches-eastern-africa
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Conclusion for Today
1. There is a hint of light that weather and climate services by the private sector cancontribute to reduce CO2 and social waste.
2. Effective user communication using the cutting-edge technologies leads to developing
and strengthening the social resilience for natural disasters caused by climate change.
3. Sustainable observation and effective data utilization based on the efficient PPP
framework are required for enhancement of new value creation in weather and climate
services for DRR.

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