JPRS Report, Environmental Issues, Japan: Response Strategies for Global WarmingStudied

摘要

This report contains the proceedings carried out between January and June 1989 bythe subgroups of the Advisory Committee on Climate change whose aim was to assess the environmental impacts and to evaluate response strategies. This follows the first interim report submitted in November 1988 by the Advisory Committee on climate change. The studies being conducted by the IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change) on the scientific aspects, environmental and socioeconomic impacts, and response strategies have not yet laid down any guidelines. With this in mind, various sub-groups have conducted their own investigations on similar categories as is being considered by IPCC, in order to sort out the issues involved in the problem. This interim report, although not as comprehensive as desired, has been made public with the intention of providing a starting point in the assessment of our common and needed efforts which are necessary in order to assess and deal with the issue of global warming more effectively.