Dr Hong-Sang Jung, executive director of the APEC Climate Center, speaks to Việt Nam News on the sidelines of the APEC Food Security Week in Cần Thơ about the significance of utilising climate information to develop sustainable agriculture in APEC economies. Our second focus is climate information application, or how to utilise climate information, in agricultural water measurement, agricultural risk reduction, and response to climate change. Our climate prediction information is of good quality because we collect data from 17 prestigious climate prediction institutions, and, based on that, we make our own prediction. But I think there is a good model in Tonga, where we have launched an agricultural climate information utilisation project. Co-operation between the government, private sector and climate centre is a very critical factor.—VNSEstablished in 2005, the APEC Climate Center has provided timely weather forecasts for APEC members and beyond and served as a key climate information centre, distributing climate data, prediction and related tools.

Source: Viet Nam News August 21, 2017 05:03 UTC