Promoting Adaptation Business

15 November 2017
Kohei Tamura
Global Environment Partnership Office,Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Potential Market size of Adaptation Business
Potential market scale ofadaptation business reaches
maximum US$500 billion
annually in 2050.
UNEP (United Nations EnvironmentProgramme) estimates*1 the cost ofadaptation measures under thesituation where “rise in temperature
is controlled to be 2 degrees Celsius
from the pre-Industrial Revolutionlevel” to be US$140-300 billion
annually between 2025-2030, andUSD$280-500 billion annually
between 2030-2050.

Global scale of adaptation andresilience products andservices by private companies
reaches approximately ￡68.7
billion annually.
The British Government’s research
estimates *2 worldwide sale ofadaptation and resilience products
and services to grow by 7.1% in
2015-2016 compared to level of
2010-2011.

*1 UNEP ”The Adaptation Finance Gap Report 2016”
http://web.unep.org/adaptationgapreport/sites/unep.org.adaptationgapreport/files/documents/agr2016.pdf*2 UK Department for Business Innovation and Skills “Adaptation and Resilience (Climate Change) (A&RCC)
2011/12, July 2013” https://www.gov.uk/search?q=Adaptation+and+resilience+climate+chage+A%26RCC

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METI’s Activities～Framework for Promoting Adaptation Business through PublicPrivate Cooperation～
Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Even with the highpotential, due to lack ofawareness of adaptation
business, only few
human resources capable
to link adaptation toexpand business.

Despite significant
demand, knowledge andawareness of adaptation
measures and technology
is low in many countries,
and thus, demandremains unattended.

There are successful casesof Japanese adaptation
business, but support forcontinuous expansion isnot established.

Solution１Solution 2

Solution 3

Dissemination & Awareness

Creating & expanding business

Human Development

Feasibility Studies
Good Practice Cases

International events

Business Guide books

Domestic Seminars, consultations

Linkage with funding schemes
Visualizing benefits
Incentives

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Good Practices by Private Sector

Area

①

Project outline

Infrastructure / Climate Establishment of a disaster-resilient transport infrastructure
1 Resilient
through monitoring system and early warning system
Monitoring & Early Warning
bundled with geomorphic analysis technologies .
potential risks associated with natural disasters for
Infrastructure / Climate Reduce
2 Resilientapotentialconstruction site via Shimizu Global Hazard
Monitoring & Early Warning
Evaluation System.
3 Resilient Infrastructure
4 Sustainable Energy Supply
5 Sustainable Energy Supply
6 Food Security & Agriculture
7 Food Security & Agriculture
8 Food Security & Agriculture
Security & Agriculture
9 Food/ Health & Sanitation
10 Food Security & Agriculture

Protect community from a threat of sea level rise bybuilding permanent concrete seawall including wave control
structures.
Supply stable electricity by introducing a resilient hybrid
power generation control system using solar power, power
storage system and energy management system.
Provide local community with access to electricity in timesof major disasters by introduction of portable solar lighting
system
Improve the quality of agricultural produce through theoperation of its resource-recycling production model “Biocycle”.
Enhance agricultural sustainability andproductivity .Introduce high quality cacao agroforestry andbuild capacity of local farmers toProduction of high quality green beans in salt-damages
regions by introducing agricultural technology based on
appropriate harvest management.
Circular business model development through flood
prevention and ecosystem protection by organic plantation
Establishment of an organic fertilizer supply system byproducing high-quality compost processed from household
rubbish and agricultural waste materials.

CountriesCompanyVietnam

Kawasaki GeologicalEngineering Co., Ltd.

Indonesia

Shimizu Corporation

Maldives

Taisei Corporation

Indonesia

Kyudenko
CorporationMyanmar,Indonesia, Kenya, Panasonic
Corporation
Ethiopia
Brazil, Thailand

Ajinomoto Co., Inc.

Indonesia

Dari K Co., Ltd.

Bangladesh

euglena Co.,Ltd.

Cambodiafrom far east inc

Sri Lanka

Kawashima Co.,Ltd3*New good practice cases added in FY2019 version

Good Practices by Private SectorArea
11 Food Security & Agriculture& Sanitation
12 Health/ Food Security & Agriculture
13 Health & Sanitation
Monitoring & Early
14 ClimateWarning
Climate Monitoring & Early
15 Warning / Food Security &Agriculture
Secure Resources & Sustainable
16 Water Supply / Health &Sanitation
Secure Resources & Sustainable
17 Water Supply / Health &Sanitation
Resources & Sustainable
18 Secure
Water Supply
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Secure Resources & Sustainable
Water Supply

20 Climate Change Finance

Project outline
Transforming desert and devastated land into
farmland through tube-shaped plant-based polylactic
acid fiber “Roll Planter”.
Provide soap-based fire extinguishing foam toprotect forest by reducing smoke damage caused byrepeated wildfire.
Provide insecticide-treated mosquito net to reduce
the prevalence of infectious disease.
Install water leak detection system and undertakewater demand projection system to reduce damages
from floods, etc.
Responding to climate change by providing big data

②Countries

CompanySouth Africa

Toray Industries, Inc.

Indonesia

Shabondama Soap Co.,Ltd.

Tanzania, Kenya,parts of Asia

Sumitomo Chemical Co.,
Ltd.

Thailand

NEC Corporation

MyanmarRemote Sensing
Technology Center ofJapan

Ensure stable supply of water suitable for agriculture China
and drinking by its electro dialysis purification system.

Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.

Prevention of water disaster by user friendly water
quality inspection kit

China, Vietnam

OPTEX Company, Limited
FUJITSU LIMITED

Prevention of flood at heavy rain while ensuring
stable water supply at scarce rain by a rainwater
storage system “CROSS-WAVE”.

China, India

SEKISUI CHEMICAL
CO.,LTD.

Install clean water supply system featuring slow sandfiltration method to reduce risk brought by watercontamination.

Indonesia,Senegal

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

Introduce weather index insurance to minimize
financial losses caused by extreme weather events.

Thailand,Myanmar

Sompo Japan
Nipponkowa Insurance
Inc.
4*New good practice cases added in FY2019 version

List of Adaptation Feasibility Studies (FY2017)

Implementing company

Project Name

TargetCountry

Agro-forestry promotion project to reinforce resilience against
SAKA NO TOCHU Co.,
climate change and improve the livelihood in rural areas of Lao
Ltd.
PDR (Mekong Organic Project)

Lao PDR

Feasibility study on adaptation business development byintroducing groundwater purification system in India

India

ERM Japan Ltd.
SompoRisk Management
Health Care Inc.

& Weather index insurance project for farmers

Myanmar

Challenergy Inc.

Feasibility study on reinforcing resilience of power andcommunication infrastructure utilizing wind power andPhilippines
satellite communication adaptable to increasing climatechange related disasters accompanied by climate change

Sunford Co., Ltd.

Forest Restoration Project (reforestation activities to increase
resilience of agricultural land and utilizing the crop to produce Cambodia
organic textile to develop local industry)55

International & Domestic Seminars
Asia-Pacific Climate Change
Adaptation Forum(2016/10, Sri Lanka）

COP22 Side Event（2016/11, Morocco）

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Domestic Seminar（2017/2）

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Visualizing Benefits ~Linkage with SDGs~<Example>

Input

OutputOutcomeIntroducing early warning
system against natural disasters(flood, landslide etc.)

・Conduct simulations
・Understand dangerous areas
・Create hazard maps

・Decrease in number of deaths
・Decrease in economic losses
・Resilient infrastructure

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For more information, please contact:
Kohei Tamura
tamura-kohei@meti.go.jp