Professor Mimura's Interview 2 of 3
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Channel: UN University · 2010 · Nonprofits & Activism
There is a pervasive belief amongst Japanese leaders and decision-makers that climate change will not have a big impact on Japan in the future. They are wrong. Prof. Nobuo Mimura, Director of the Institute for Global Change Adaptation Science at Ibaraki University, headed a four-year collaboration between 14 research institutions that yielded some shocking predictions. At a recent ground-breaking United Nations University symposium on the role of higher education in adapting to climate change, Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi, UNU Vice Rector, sat down with keynote speaker Prof. Mimura and asked him about the findings. Read the associated Our World 2.0 article: http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/japan-examines-costs-of-climate-change/
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