Climate Risk Country Profile : China

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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Main Authors: World Bank Group, Asian Development Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC and Asian Development Bank, Manila 2021
Subjects:
CLIMATE RISK
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
NATURAL DISASTER
HEATWAVE
DROUGHT
FLOOD
CYCLONE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/696911632461664635/China-Climate-Risk-Country-Profile
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36376
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spelling okr-10986-363762021-10-14T05:10:54Z Climate Risk Country Profile : China World Bank Group Asian Development Bank CLIMATE RISK CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION NATURAL DISASTER HEATWAVE DROUGHT FLOOD CYCLONE 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. 2021-10-13T20:13:51Z 2021-10-13T20:13:51Z 2021-09-24 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/696911632461664635/China-Climate-Risk-Country-Profile http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36376 English CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo World Bank and Asian Development Bank World Bank, Washington, DC and Asian Development Bank, Manila Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Risk and Vulnerability Assessment East Asia and Pacific China
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topic CLIMATE RISK
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
NATURAL DISASTER
HEATWAVE
DROUGHT
FLOOD
CYCLONE
spellingShingle CLIMATE RISK
CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
NATURAL DISASTER
HEATWAVE
DROUGHT
FLOOD
CYCLONE
World Bank Group
Asian Development Bank
Climate Risk Country Profile : China
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description 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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Asian Development Bank
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Asian Development Bank
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title Climate Risk Country Profile : China
title_short Climate Risk Country Profile : China
title_full Climate Risk Country Profile : China
title_fullStr Climate Risk Country Profile : China
title_full_unstemmed Climate Risk Country Profile : China
title_sort climate risk country profile : china
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC and Asian Development Bank, Manila
publishDate 2021
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