China. National communication (NC). NC 3.

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The People’s Republic of
China
Third National
Communication on
Climate Change
December 2018

Foreword
Global climate change, which has profound impacts on human survival and
development, poses a major challenge to all nations. Recalling Articles 4 and 12 of
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter referred
to as the Convention), each Party shall submit its national communication. As a non-
Annex I party to the Convention, the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred
to as China) has attached great importance to its international obligations. China
submitted its Initial National Communications on Climate Change and Second
National Communications on Climate Change in 2004 and 2012 respectively, in which
policies and actions in response to climate change were comprehensively elaborated,
and the 1994 National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory and 2005 National GHG
Inventory were reported.
Upon receiving the grants from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in 2015, the
Chinese government launched the preparation of its third national communication
by organizing the departments and research institutions concerned and by following
the guidelines for the preparation of national communications from Parties not
included in Annex I to the Convention, which was adopted by COP 8. After three years
of efforts, China has completed The People's Republic of China Third National
Communication on Climate Change. In 2018, in accordance with the arrangements
for the institutional reform of Chinese government, the functions of addressing
climate change were allocated from China's National Development and Reform
Commission to the newly established Ministry of Ecology and Environment. This
report was approved by the State Council after multiple and repeated revisions
based on broad comments and submitted by the Ministry of Ecology and
Environment.
The People’s Republic of China Third National Communication on Climate Change,
approved by the Chinese government, is divided into eight Parts: National
Circumstances and Institutional Arrangements, National Greenhouse Gas Inventory,
Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation, Policies and Actions for Climate Change
Mitigation, Finance, Technology and Capacity-Building Needs and Support Received,
Other Information on Achieving Target of the Convention, Basic Information of the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) on Climate Change, and Basic
Information of the Macao SAR on Climate Change, presenting a full picture of China’s
national efforts on climate change. According to the relevant decisions of the
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Convention, and in light of China’s national circumstances and the information
reported by the Second National Communication on Climate Change, the National
GHG Inventory presented herein is based on the data of 2010, while the description
about relevant conditions given in other chapters is generally updated to 2015. In
accordance with the relevant principles set down in the Basic Law of the Hong Kong