Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS) project’s 1st Plenary Meeting has been held at the Miyoshi memorial hall in JAMSTEC Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences on Wednesday, 25th November 2015, as a kick-off of the project.
A new holistic science program of Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS) was launched under the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan in the autumn of 2015. ArCS promotes observation and prediction researches related to climate change, sea ice distribution and ecosystem dynamics in the Arctic region. The unique point of ArCS compared to other foregoing science projects is that ArCS is requested to contribute not only to science community but more to society widely (e.g. decision makers of Japan and Arctic countries, world socio-economic stakeholders and Arctic indigenous people.) This unique point of ArCS derived from the Japan’s Arctic Policy adopted on September 2015 by the Cabinet of Japan where Japan will contribute to Arctic countries and other communities through science and technology as an Observer country of the Arctic Council.
