AP-PLAT was released.
| Date of the meeting | June 16, 2019 |
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| Venue | Nagano Prefecture / Karuizawa Town |
16 June 2019 (Sunday), Karuizawa-cho, Nagano Prefecture
On the occasion of the G20 Energy Conversion for Sustainable Growth and the G20 Council on Global Environment (hereinafter referred to as the "G20 Ministerial Meeting"), Ministry of the Environment launched the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform (AP-PLAT) and held a launch ceremony. At the ceremony, representatives from the Indonesian Government (G20 members) and the Thai Government (invited countries) gave congratulatory speeches commemorating the launch of AP-PLAT.
AP-PLAT was also registered as one of the multilateral actions in the G20 Action Agenda on Adaptation and Resilient Infrastructure (AAA), which was compiled by the G20 Minister of the Environment at the G20 Ministerial Meeting.
Ministry of the Environment and National Institute for Environmental Studies will cooperate with relevant countries and organizations in order to build a better AP-PLAT.
Programs and attendees of the launch ceremony
- ① AP-PLAT launch declarations
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- Yoshiaki Harada, Minister of the Environment
- ② Summary of the AP-PLAT
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- Ministry of the Environment Yasuo Takahashi
- ③ Statements from relevant countries and organizations
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- Indonesian Minister of Environment and Forestry, City Nurbaya Bakar
- Vice-Minister, Ministry of Natural Resources, Wincharn Simachar Tires
- Chairman, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Watanabe Chiho National R&D Corporation
- President of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Kazuhiko Takeuchi Public Interest Foundation
- Vice President, Banvan Susantono Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Satya Tripati, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
- Naoko Ishii, Secretary-General of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
