What we are doing
SI-CAT is a large scale national research program in Japan that develops tools and methodologies to support local governments to develop/implement their climate change adaptation action plan. It aims to protect the security of Japan's residents and their property from threats of climate change. SI-CAT develops reliable technologies for near-term climate change projections to review and formulate climate change countermeasures by local governments and assess the effectiveness of those countermeasures. It supports the adoption of regionally-specific municipal adaptation measures. SI-CAT conducts its technological development in collaboration with researchers of geoscience, social science and humanities, and officials of local governments. It contributes to the development of adaptation plans by local governments and the creation of new enterprises, in consideration of the steady adaptation of various needs to climate change.
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