Abstract
The Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), an organ of the National Institute for Environmental Studies of the Environment Agency of Japan, was established in October 1990 to contribute broadly to the scientific understanding of global change, and the elucidation of and solution for our pressing environmental problems. CGER has three major activities: integration of global environmental research, management of a global environmental database, and global environmental monitoring.
The objectives of research integration are to ensure communication and networking among researchers and decision makers, to cooperate with the Research and Information Office of the Global Environment Division of the Environment Agency in coordinating scientific and socio-economic research on global change, and to cooperate in international efforts to establish a research network for global change. For the database activities, CGER is establishing a global environmental database system as well as producing and distributing UNEP/GRID environmental data sets to support environmental research and decision making. For the global environmental monitoring activities, CGER is measuring and recording data of various phenomena via long-term monitoring programs and makes these data available to interested parties both directly through the publication of data reports and also by providing our data for international data networks.
In this report, the activities of the global environmental database system and the global environmental monitoring system by CGER are introduced.
