Hello Hiroshi, Masa and All, Thank you for this important information. The Heisei Environment Research Fund's 24 year R&D Challenge seems to be the first non-IPCC co-ordinated Meta Study effort which, as mentioned; 1) recognizes the possibility of an Arctic tipping point and; 2) provides the concept of Geoengineering a place at the table.
The translation provided here http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.env.go.jp%2Fpolicy%2Fkenkyu%2Fsuishin%2Fkoubo%2Fpdf%2F2012s-10_needs.pdf is workable and deserves a patient reading. I would like to draw specific attention to the following section as it has the most relivance on a possible Arctic tipping point. Page 7; *Research on climate change risk analysis of critical (3): Theme 3* * * *Theme Leader: Taikan Oki (Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo) * *** * *"Critical phenomena and geophysical characterization of the risk of climate change with a focus on the cryosphere (4): [public] sub-themes" * If the ESAS erupts into an obvious tipping point this coming spring, Dr. Oki should be CCed on any information coming from this Group on that issue. As a side note of relevant interest: I spent some time reading background information on the Heisei Fund and found this paper which was partially funded by that group. A fast moving ESAS tipping point situation may demand this type of "networked based cooperation". *Between the Theory and Policy: Environmental Networking the East Asian Way* http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/re/k-rsc/ras/04_publications/ria_en/9_03.pdf *"In this article, the reason why network-based cooperation can be a driving force in East Asia will be mainly discussed. Such inquiry is of growing importance as it implies a critical standpoint of the theory/policy dichotomy by analyzing the existing approaches to environmental governance in East Asia."* Hiroshi and Masa, thank you again for bringing the Heisei Challange effort to the Group. It is a welcomed perspective. Michael On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Masa Sugiyama <s-m...@criepi.denken.or.jp>wrote: > Just to follow up, the funding has not been finalized yet. The > overaching project on climate > risk (including mitigation, tipping elements, impact analysis etc.) is > very likely > to launch this spring, but the sub-projects are subject to change, in > my understanding. > And it is not clear how much of the funding would go into the > geoengineering > aspect of the project. > > The call for proposals can be read in machine-generated English here > (thanks to Google): > http://goo.gl/I8F7U > > Best, > Masa > > On Feb 15, 10:16 am, hiroshi mizutani <mizutani49...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Japan’s Ministry of the Environment is at the final stage of > selection > > process to grant a bounty to geoengineering researches. > > > > The name of the umbrella project under which geoengineering > proposals > > are now reviewed is something like “Multidisciplinary Research on > > Constructing Risk Management Plan for Global Climate Change.” Titles of > > research subjects that bear the word “geoengineering” are “Extension and > > Application of Integrated Evaluation System in light of Adaptation and > > Geoengineering Technologies” and “Meta-analysis and Assessment of > > Advancements of Geoengineering Technologies.” > > > > The research period is 5 years beginning this April and the annual > > budget is about US $3,850,000 (300,000,000 in Japanese yen), totaling > more > > than US 19 million dollars at present exchange rate. > > > > It only recently came to my attention, and I am sorry for being late > > to inform you on this important development on geoengineering in Japan. > > For details, please visit to： > http://www.env.go.jp/policy/kenkyu/suishin/koubo/pdf/2012s-10_needs.pdf > > (Regrettably, language of the site is Japanese; for other languages, > please > > ask the Ministry through their English home page athttp:// > www.env.go.jp/en/(atthe bottom of the page, phone number and masked > E-mail entrance are > > given)). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > > -- *Michael Hayes* *360-708-4976* http://www.voglerlake.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
