China’s achievements, new goals and new measures for nationally determined contributions

China’s Achievements, New Goals and Measures for Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) serves as an update to the Enhanced Actions on Climate Change: China’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions submitted in 2015, which encompasses policies and measures adopted and results achieved by China with respect to NDCs, new goals and measures for enhanced actions on climate change, and active efforts in international cooperation on climate change. The content herein related to climate change adaptation also forms China’s Adaptation Communication under the Paris Agreement.

This NDC also highlights progress made under the National Strategy on Climate Change Adaptation. The strategy laid out clear guiding thoughts and principles for climate change adaptation from 2014 to 2020, as a guidance for various policies and institutional arrangements; set out specific adaptation goals such as significant enhancement of adaptation capacity, full implementation of key tasks, and basic formation of regional framework for adaptation; identified key tasks in seven areas, including infrastructure, agriculture, water resources, coastal regions and coastal waters, forests and other ecosystems, human health, tourism and other industries; proposed adaptation tasks with respective emphasis for urbanized areas, agricultural development areas, and ecological security areas