Climate Risk Country Profile : China
Climate change is a major risk to good development outcomes, and the World Bank Group is committed to playing an important role in helping countries integrate climate action into their core development agendas. The World Bank Group (WBG) and the As...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC and Asian Development Bank, Manila
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/696911632461664635/China-Climate-Risk-Country-Profile http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36376 |
| Summary: | Climate change is a major risk to good
development outcomes, and the World Bank Group is committed
to playing an important role in helping countries integrate
climate action into their core development agendas. The
World Bank Group (WBG) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
are committed to supporting client countries to invest in
and build a low-carbon, climate-resilient future, helping
them to be better prepared to adapt to current and future
climate impacts. The People’s Republic of China is the
world’s second largest economy and the largest country by
population, with over 1.4 billion people. The country is
highly diverse, both in geography and ethnography. The
country’s geography can be generally divided into four
regions. The Southern region, consisting of hilly terrain
and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The Northern region,
consisting of low productivity plains and deserts, including
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Western Region,
consisting of high-altitude plains and mountains in Tibet
Autonomous Region, and the Eastern region, which can be
sub-divided into the Central Plain, North Plain, and the
Northeast Plain, consisting of alluvial plains of the
Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, and a densely populated
coastline. As of 2018 China contained six cities with
populations over 10 million. |
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