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The APEC Climate Center (APCC) was established in 2005 with the unanimous endorsement and warm welcome of APEC senior officials and leaders at the first APEC Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in Seoul, Korea. At the 17th APEC Ministerial held in November 2005, the APEC Ministers welcomed the establishment of APCC in their Joint Statement.
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| On 18th November 2005, on the occasion of the 13th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Busan, Korea, the APCC was formally launched with the mission of strengthening scientific and technological cooperation across the APEC region in order to help economies and societies deal effectively with the consequences of current and future climate-related hazards through the provision of climate information, research and technical support. |
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| Since its establishment, APCC has played an important role in the region in providing climate information products and services based on a multi-model ensemble prediction system. |
Vision and Goals
The APCC will to set up an institutionalized communication channel for effective exchanges of regional climate information among APEC member economies. APCC aims at realizing the APEC vision of regional prosperity through the enhancement of economic opportunities, the reduction of economic loss and the protection of life and property through:
- Production of skillful real-time climate predictions;
- Facilitating the share of high-cost climate data and information;
- Enhancing capacity in prediction and social and economic applications of climate information;
- Minimizing climate related damages;
- Capitalizingon non-preventable damages; and
- Accelerating and extending socio-economic innovation.
Mission
The mission of APCC is to enhance the socio-economic well-being of member economies by utilizing up-to-date scientific knowledge and applying innovative climate prediction techniques through:
- Developing a value-added reliable real-time climate prediction system, through a state-of-the-art multi-model climate prediction system utilizing model predictions from member economies;
- Acting as a center for climate data and related information with open access to member economies;
- Helping build the capacity of member economies in producing and using reliable climate predictions;
- Developing improved methods of utilizing socio-economic innovation to mitigate and adapt to climate fluctuations and change and guide member economies towards optimum utilization of APCC climate prediction information; and
- Coordinating research toward the development of an APEC integrated climate-environment-socio-economic system model (ultimate and longer-term scope)
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