Climate change assessment is central for lowcarbon management practice. This paper investigates China's National Climate Change Assessment Reports of 2007, 2011, and 2015. These three reports are compared with oth...Climate change assessment is central for lowcarbon management practice. This paper investigates China's National Climate Change Assessment Reports of 2007, 2011, and 2015. These three reports are compared with other climate change assessment reports by data mining. The necessity of national climate change assessment is analyzed with the requirements at home and abroad. The latest progress surrounding climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation is outlined with the increasing temperature rise in China and the urgency of climate change commitments. The achievements in climate change assessment indicate the increasing climate change vulnerability on sectors and regions in China and the strategies and priorities for low-carbon actions. Distinct gaps and differences are identified in the coverage of industry, regions, and vulnerability assessment between our assessments and other evaluation reports. These gaps and differences demonstrate the importance and future improvements of China's national climate change assessment in international climate governance. The outlook for China's fourth assessment report is proposed.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71704178)Beijing Excellent Talent Program (Grant No. 2017000020124G133)+1 种基金Major Consulting Project of Chinese Academy of Engineering (Grant Nos. 2016-ZD-07 and 2017-ZD-03)Beijing Undergraduate Research Training Program (Grant No. C201801229).
文摘Climate change assessment is central for lowcarbon management practice. This paper investigates China's National Climate Change Assessment Reports of 2007, 2011, and 2015. These three reports are compared with other climate change assessment reports by data mining. The necessity of national climate change assessment is analyzed with the requirements at home and abroad. The latest progress surrounding climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation is outlined with the increasing temperature rise in China and the urgency of climate change commitments. The achievements in climate change assessment indicate the increasing climate change vulnerability on sectors and regions in China and the strategies and priorities for low-carbon actions. Distinct gaps and differences are identified in the coverage of industry, regions, and vulnerability assessment between our assessments and other evaluation reports. These gaps and differences demonstrate the importance and future improvements of China's national climate change assessment in international climate governance. The outlook for China's fourth assessment report is proposed.
