Project Record

Objectives:

Goal: To improve international knowledge on the assessment of climate impacts and risks, and develop practical approaches to climate change adaptation
Purpose: To develop and share internationally China's experience of integrating climate adaptation into the development process, in order to reduce China's, and other countries', vulnerability to climate change

Background:

DFID Research are developing a programme of adaptation research for Asia and Latin America, following the African programme which has been in operation since 2006. CRD has also contributed £2m to a separate China Adaptation Research programme which will be co-managed by DFID-China and the Chinese National Development Planning Commission. It is important that the China project is linked closely to the wider Asia project – it could provide valuable lessons not only to other parts of China but in due course to other parts of Asia.

Many of the issues in Keeley's report related to adaptation are already being taken up by the China Adaptation Research programme. Some of the other issues related to the Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Programme will be taken up through ESPA design and are likely to have a China component – though ESPA is not concerned only with climate change.

Intended Outputs:

1. Improved development of and access to climate change science in China.
2. Comprehensive risk assessments, based upon vulnerability and impacts, produced at national and provincial level.
3. Climate risks integrated into planning and management within the three project provinces, and informing national level processes.
4. Awareness and capacity are increased among Chinese policymakers and other key stakeholders to address climate chance adaptation within China’s development process.
5. Knowledge sharing between China, UK, and other countries in Asia and Africa, to further develop climate change adaptation approaches, and better understand the political economy of adaptation to climate change

General Notes:

This project is funded jointly by:
DFID Research and Evidence Division - £2m
DFID China - £500,000
Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) - £500,000
SDC - 3m Euros