The purpose of this Act, divided into four Chapters, is to promote Climate Change Adaptation through establishing necessary measures such as formulating plans for Climate Change Adaptation and providing information on the Climate Change Impact and Climate Change Adaptation, thereby contributing to the health and cultural life of the Japanese people both at present and in the future in recognition of the impact that global warming (as stipulated in art. 2 of Act on Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures (Act No. 117 of 1998)) and other climate change has on daily life, society, economics, and the natural environment, and the risk that this impact will increase over the long term.
In promoting policies on Climate Change Adaptation, the national and local governments shall endeavor to cooperate with measures to prevent disasters, measures to encourage agriculture, forestry and fisheries, measures to conserve biodiversity, and other related measures.