The National Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation
Reflecting China’s vulnerability to climate change impacts, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) published China’s National Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation in November 2013.
The strategy lays out clear guidelines and principles for climate change adaptation and proposes some specific adaptation goals. It outlines a wide range of measures to be implemented by 2020 in order to protect water resources, minimise soil erosion and strengthen disaster prevention, such as early-warning detection and information-sharing mechanisms at the national and provincial levels, ocean disaster monitoring system and coastal restoration. To reduce climate impacts in agriculture the Chinese government plans to develop new farming practices, including controlling plant-eating pests and improving crop adaptability.
The plan also includes weather-based financial instruments such as catastrophe bonds and weather index-based insurance.
