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Climate Risk Country Profile : China.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- World Bank Group.
- Series:
- Risk and Vulnerability Assessment.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adaptation To Climate Change.
- Climate Change.
- Climate Change Impacts.
- Environment.
- Environmental Disasters and Degradation.
- Environmental Economics and Policies.
- Natural Disasters.
- Local Subjects:
- Adaptation To Climate Change.
- Climate Change.
- Climate Change Impacts.
- Environment.
- Environmental Disasters and Degradation.
- Environmental Economics and Policies.
- Natural Disasters.
- Other Title:
- Climate Risk Country Profile
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2021.
- System Details:
- data file
- 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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