Climate change goes beyond borders and governments.
This partnership will bring greater results than individual efforts by combining our resources and capabilities. The agreement provides a five-year framework to develop and implement joint science projects in the North Pacific and Arctic Oceans. This partnership will offer each country the opportunity to share its expertise, resources and equipment that will result in more extensive, in-depth research projects. Japan has a strong Antarctic program and this cooperative endeavour will help strengthen Canadian scientists' linkage to the bipolar research initiatives. Research under this agreement will enable scientists to better address major questions such as the possibility of accelerated global warming from the release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, locked in the permafrost.