International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI)
Organization: United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)
The IPSI is an international partnership established on the occasion of the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to help realize a society in harmony with nature through the conservation and management of biodiversity cultivated within the framework of interrelationships between human and nature. It seeks to promote the accumulation and sharing of knowledge concerning the conservation and sustainable use of socio-ecologically productive landscapes and seascapes and issue policy recommendations for communities not just on land but also in coastal areas.
The IPSI Secretariat is hosted by the UNU-IAS. The government of Japan funds for operating this partnership.
Source: Satoyama Initiative (International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative,
https://satoyama-initiative.org/ja/concept/satoyama-initiative/)
Research on a vision for national territory in the 21st century from the perspective of the ocean
Organization: Society of Ocean Romantics (ORS), Institute of Ocean Energy Saga University (IOES), Deep Ocean Water Applications Society (DOWAS), Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Association Institute (GOSEA)
In accordance with the idea that the 21st century corresponds to the era of development of a new maritime civilization, the organizations involved will support ocean-related research and educators and preside over ocean resource and energy research groups in order to deepen knowledge on the majesty and diversity of the oceans, which belong to all of mankind, and introduce the results of their research to a broad range of people. As part of the relevant activities, the organizations involved are intensively studying the effects on sea areas around Japan of a measure to weaken hurricanes and enhancing ocean productivity due to the lowering of ocean surface temperatures caused by bringing up large volumes of cold and nutrient rich ocean water from deep below the surface, as covered in a report issued by GESAMP (Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection).
which is based on the use of seawater resources as proposed
by Professor Emeritus P. Takahashi of the University of Hawaii
GOSEA website (http://www.gosea.info/jp/)