We held the FY2020 Climate Change Adaptation Training (Mid-level Course).
| Date of the meeting | January 29, 2021(Friday) |
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| Venue | On-line event (Zoom Webinar) |
On Friday, January 29, 2021, we held training sessions centered on lectures by experts for employees of local governments in order to deepen their understanding of how to collect and organize information on local climate change impacts and formulate local climate change adaptation plans. More than 200 people from prefectures, municipalities, local climate change adaptation centers, etc. participated in the lectures by Lecturer who are active at the front lines of their respective fields.
The overall program is as follows:
| Number | Time | Training items | Lecturer |
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| 10:00 – 10:10 | Operator's greetings and briefing on the outline of the training | National Institute for Environmental Studies Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Hitoshi Mukai Manager of centre |
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| Lecture1 | 10:10 – 11:10 | Background of Climate Change Projections | Chief Researcher of Meteorological Agency Meteorological Laboratories Izuru Takayabu |
| Lecture2 | 11:10 – 12:10 | View of Climate Change Projections | Chief Researcher of Meteorological Agency Meteorological Laboratories Izuru Takayabu |
| Lecture3 | 13:10 – 14:10 | Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in the Agricultural Sector | Agricultural Environment Change Research Center, Japan Agricultural Research Institute Motoki Nishimori Unit Manager |
| Lecture4 | 14:10 – 15:10 | Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in the Heat Sector-Focusing on Health- | Yasushi Honda, Professor, University of Tsukuba National Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Visiting Researchers |
| Lecture5 | 15:20 – 16:20 | How to Relate Climate Change Impacts in the Natural Environment | National Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Observation and Monitoring Study Office Dai Koide Researcher |
| Lecture6 | 16:20 – 17:20 | Climate Change Projections and Adaptation for Heavy Rain Disasters | Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University Professor Eiichi Nakakita |
| 17:20 – 17:30 | Closing remarks | National Institute for Environmental Studies Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Keiko Yoshikawa, vice president of the Center |
In [Lecture 1] in the morning, Mr. Izuru Takayabu, Chief Researcher of Meteorological Agency Meteorological Laboratory, told me about the background of climate change projections, and the expertise of climate scenarios, downscaling, how data sets reach users, and so on.
[Lecture 2] At the same time, Mr. Takayabu, chief Researcher, gave lectures on the differences between the observed data and the model data, points in using the model data, and points to be taken into account when users use the data to formulate measures, under the title "View of Climate Change Forecasts." We have carefully introduced this report focusing on what we want to know as a person in charge of local governments.
Turning to the afternoon section, in [Lecture 3], Mr. Motoki Nishimori, Director-General of the Agricultural Environment Change Research Center of the Agricultural Research Institute, told us about the results of the project of the Agricultural Research Institute under the title "Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Measures in the Agricultural Sector". Explanations were given with the goal of enabling local governments' environmental departments involved in the formulation of climate change adaptation measures to acquire the necessary knowledge when communicating with agricultural departments.
[Lecture 4] Then, Mr. Yasushi Honda, Professor of the University of Tsukuba, told me about adaptation in the field of health under the title "Climate-Change Impacts and Adaptation in the Field of Heat-Focusing on Health." After talking about the health impacts of climate change at the global to Japanese level, I mentioned the issue of particularly important heat-related excess deaths and heat-stroke emergency transport, and introduced the idea of adaptation measures as well as the issues.
[Lecture 5] Then, a researcher at National Institute for Environmental Studies Climate Change Adaptation Centre, Dai Koide, discussed the basic approach to adaptation to climate change impacts in the natural environment under the title "How to relate to climate change impacts in the natural environment." We conducted easy-to-understand lectures in accordance with the procedures for planning adaptation measures in the field of the natural environment, incorporating various hints on how we should act in order to implement and sustain adaptation measures rooted in local communities.
At the end of [Lecture 6], Professor Eiichi Nakakita of the Kyoto University Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction gave a lecture entitled "Climate-Change Forecasting and Adaptation for Heavy Rain Disasters." I would like to talk about how to adapt to heavy rainfall disasters without regret, along with the latest findings from research on climate change projections, such as what kind of climate projection data set is available and how to use for heavy rainfall disaster projections. In addition, some members of the Environment Department expressed their desire to become the core of disseminating the importance of adaptation to those involved in a wide range of fields, including natural disasters.
This training was designed differently from the previous "Climate Change Adaptation Training" for mid-level participants in order to formulate regional climate change adaptation plans. It was the first training conducted by National Institute for Environmental Studies Climate Change Adaptation Centre. I hope that the content of the discussions with researchers involved in cutting-edge research will be useful in formulating and reviewing regional climate change adaptation plans.
National Institute for Environmental Studies Climate Change Adaptation Centre will continue to plan training based on requests from local governments.
