APEC Climate Center

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. 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)