Introduction to Sessions 12 and 13

Presentations in the sessions 12 and 13• Session 12 : Global impacts (Chair: Takahashi)• Global food insecurity under climate volatility: Dr. Tomoko Hasegawa (NIES,Japan)• Climate and biomass impacts on global land use: Dr. Ron Sands (USDA, USA)
• Does linearity hold for climate change impacts between 2°C warming andother warming levels? Dr. Akemi Tanaka (National Agriculture and Food
Research Organization, Japan)• Intercomparison of regulated river discharge among multiple global hydrologicalmodels under multiple forcings: Dr. Yoshimitsu Masaki (Hirosaki University,Japan)• Session 13: Regional/national impacts (Chair: Dr. Hijioka)• Climate change impact on bio-climatic zone in North-east Asia: Prof. Seongwoo
Jeon (Korea University, Korea) and Dr. Huicheul Jung (KEI, Korea)• Spatial optimization considering impact of climate change: Ms. Eunjoo Yoon(SNU, Korea)• Regional impact assessment on rice production in Indonesia to develop regional
adaptation plans: Prof. Yuji Masutomi (Ibaraki University, Japan)

Impact-related research projects• NIES Environment-Economy-Society Integration Research Program– Improvement of AIM for developing quantitative SD scenarios[2016.4-2021.3]• NIES Low-Carbon Society Research Program

Hasegawa(12-1)– Climate change and global risk assessment[2016.4-2021.3]• S10 (a.k.a. ICA-RUS) (funded by the MoE, Japan)– Development of global climate risk management Strategies[2012.4-2017.3]• S14 (a.k.a. MiLAi) (funded by the MoE, Japan)– Global mitigation and local adaptation to climate change[2015.6-2020.3]• Balancing reduction of climate change risks, economic development, andconservation of ecosystem services for promoting global wellbeing• SICAT (funded by MEXT, Japan)– Social implementation of climate change adaptation technology in Japan[2015.11-]

Tanaka(12-3)

International collaborations/activities• international research projects– Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP)[Hanasaki, Masaki]– Impacts and Risks from High-End Scenarios: Strategies forInnovative Solutions (EU-IMPRESSIONS)[Takahashi, Hanasaki, Masui]
Hasegawa– AGMIP-GlobEcon [Hasegawa, Fujimori](12-1)• IPCC– Participation to the ‘IPCC SR1.5 scoping meeting’ (Aug. 2016)[Masui, Takahashi]• bilateral collaborations– Participation to the Japan – Korea International Workshop on
adaptation study (SNU, Seoul, Feb. 2016) [Hijioka, Takahashi]– MoE project for supporting the development of state-level
adaptation plans in Indonesia [Takahashi]

Masaki(12-4)

Sands(12-2)

Jeon, Jungand Yoon
(13-1 & 13-2)
Masutomi(13-3)

Refereed publications (Published/accepted in 2016)•

Climate change impacts on water/hydrology––––•

Climate change impacts on energy production/demand––•Zhou Q., Hanasaki N., Fujimori S., Masaki Y., Hijioka Y. (2016) Model-based analysis of impact of climatechange and mitigation on hydropower, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1, 72(4):19-24.
Hasegawa T., Park C., Fujimori S., Takahashi K., Hijioka Y., Masui T. (2016) Quantifying the economic impact ofchanges in energy demand for space heating and cooling systems under varying climatic scenarios. palgravecommunications, 2 (16013), 1-8

Climate change impacts on food and human health–•Hanasaki, N., S. Yoshikawa, K. Kakinuma, and S. Kanae (2016), A seawater desalination scheme for globalhydrological models, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 20(10), 4143-4157, doi: 10.5194/hess-20-4143-2016
Pokhrel, Y. N., N. Hanasaki, Y. Wada, and H. Kim (2016), Recent progresses in incorporating human land–water
management into global land surface models toward their integration into Earth system models, Wiley
Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 3(4), 548-574, doi: 10.1002/wat2.1150.
Yano, S., N. Hanasaki, N. Itsubo, and T. Oki (2016), Potential Impacts of Food Production on Freshwater
Availability Considering Water Sources, Water, 8(4), 163.
Konar, M., J. J. Reimer, Z. Hussein, and N. Hanasaki (2016), The water footprint of staple crop trade under climate
and policy scenarios, Environ. Res. Lett., 11(3), 035006.

Hasegawa T., Fujimori S., Takahashi K., Yokohata T., Masui T. (2016) Economic implications of climate change
impacts on human health through undernourishment. Climatic Change, 1-14

Other impact-related topics––Shiogama H., Stone D., Emori S., Takahashi K., Mori. S., Maeda A, Ishizaki Y., Allen M.R. (2016) Predicting
future uncertainty constraints on global warming projections. Scientific Reports, 6O’Neill B., Oppenheimer M., Warren R., Hallegatte S., Kopp R., Pörtner H., Scholes R., Birkmann J., Foden W.,Licker R., Mach K., Marbaix P., Mastrandrea M., Price J., Takahashi K., van Ypersele J.P and Yohe G.: IPCC
Reasons for Concern regarding climate change risks. Nature Climate Change. (Accepted).

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