Analysis of Sustainability and Climate Change Prevention in China

This assignment delves into China's path to sustainability, emphasizing the critical role of reforms articulated in the five-year plans. It examines the factors responsible for climate change in China, including the country's significant coal usage and greenhouse gas emissions, and analyzes the impacts of these changes on various aspects of society, such as human health, infrastructure, and the economy. The report further discusses the responsibilities of different entities in addressing climate change, highlighting China's position as a major emitter and its efforts to balance economic growth with environmental concerns. It also outlines preventive structures and mechanisms implemented by the Chinese government to mitigate climate change effects, including policies aimed at reducing coal consumption and promoting renewable energy sources. The analysis incorporates adaptation strategies for protecting human health and strengthening environmental awareness, ultimately providing a comprehensive overview of China's challenges and initiatives in pursuing a sustainable future. Desklib offers a wealth of similar assignments and study resources for students.

Path to Sustainability
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Contents
Executive Summary.....................................................................................................................................3
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................4
Sustainability...............................................................................................................................................5
1. Chinese climate change.......................................................................................................................7
1.1 Factors responsible for climate change..............................................................................................7
1.2 Impacts and adaptation for the climate change..................................................................................8
2. Responsibility....................................................................................................................................10
2.1 Who takes the responsibility of the climate change?.......................................................................10
3. Prevention..........................................................................................................................................11
3.1 Preventive structure from the climate change in China....................................................................11
3.2 Preventing mechanism of climate change........................................................................................12
Recommendation.......................................................................................................................................13
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................14
References.................................................................................................................................................15
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Executive Summary
This is the assignment about the path to sustainability which means that the
economy will depend on the huge extent for the successful implementation of the
reforms which can articulate in the plan of twelfth fifth-year and it carry forward
for next five-year plan; which can be developed in the duration of the period. This
assignment includes the factors which are responsible for the climate change, and
also the impacts and the adaptation of the people. It has discussed who is
responsible for the change in the climate and also the prevention structure and also
the preventive mechanism are discussed.
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Introduction
This assignment is about the development of China, the major steps taken by the
people and the government of the China for developing the economy of the china.
Moreover, it has discussed the how the change in the climate affects the
sustainability in China. Change in the climate of China; factors which are
responsible for the change in the climate of the China and the adaptation and the
impacts on the sustainability of the china. It has discussed that that is responsible
for the climate change and the preventive structure and preventive mechanisms
which are made by the government.
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Sustainability
The path to sustainability is the study which tells that how the system works which
remains diverse and it produces everything which is needed to remain in the
balance for the ecology. Sustainability focuses on balancing the thin line between
the need to move ahead economically and technologically and also needs to protect
the environment which belongs to us; in which we and other life (Carroll, and
Buchholtz, 2014). Sustainability is not only about the environment but is also
about the health of us as the society ensuring that none of the area and people life
must suffer as the legislation of the environment. There are three main pillars of
the sustainability which are:
 Economic development: This is most problematic issues as most of the people
are not agree with the political ideology and they are not economically sound
so they think that how will they affect the business by employment, extension,
and jobs (Furuoka, 2016). It is also about to encourage by giving the incentives
for the average person for doing the bit when and where they may achieve
more but as a group which affects in those areas which are cumulative.
 Social development: Most important awareness is to protect the health of the
people from the harmful activities of the business and also from the pollution.
There should be some of the strong programs which can ensure the health of
people is strongly protected (Wang, and Christensen, 2017). There is a topic
which is in the trend within the people of the sustainable housing; that how can
build better homes. The last sustainability about which the people think is
education which the way to encourage the people for participating in the
sustainability of the environment.
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 Environmental protection: Each and everyone knows that it is very important
for us to protect our environment; whether it’s by reducing the use of
electricity, recycling of the papers and plastics and walking for the short
journey instead of the vehicle. It our duty to know how to keep protect our
ecosystem, integrity, air quality and sustain the resources and also focus on the
things which harm the environment.
From last some years, the growth of the China economy slowed down; the prices
fall down and many of the economic activities were weakened such as imports,
production from industries and investments. Then the five-year plan was made
which provides the further impetus to reform which improve the pattern for the
economic development of the country. The government of China made some of the
opportunistic moves to start up the momentum on the few measures. These
measures increased the flexibility in the rate of exchange, it increased the foreign
investors; it relaxed the cap on the rate of interest which is paid on the deposits in
the bank and it encouraged the informal financial firms to merge with the formal
banking system. All these moves had the broader significance.
In China there is rapid urbanization which the country is experiencing and also the
developed cities are getting hampered by reducing the access of the energy and the
resources and also the natural disaster cause the change of climate in the china.
Moreover, the emission of the gases from the greenhouse from the development
and construction can accelerate the global climate change. The most effective of
the climate change is on where the infrastructure is developed; the experience of
breaking down of the infrastructure the most important place of China will lose to
frequent power failure, intermittent supply of water, cancellation or delay of the
transportation. It increases the prices of water, electricity, gas and also of other
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daily use products. The losses for the companies are property damage, loss in
production and industrial accidents on the large scale.
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1. Chinese climate change
China is the biggest coal user which increased the coal mining; the government of
China has made and implemented many policies to reduce the consumption of the
coal and encouraged to increase the electricity and natural gas. The government of
Chine has the higher goal for the growth of the economy and the consumption of
the coal can increase the growth in next few years (Ge, et. al., 2015). The activities
of humans and the structure of energy caused by the change in the climate and
global warming; hence China is suffering from the negative effects of the water,
agriculture and forest resources. The government of China is implementing the
policies to diminish the bad effects of the change in the climate.
1.1 Factors responsible for climate change
China contributes the maximum percent in the release of carbon to the atmosphere
in the world. Releasing of the carbon can decline because of the slow economic
growth and can reduce the use of the coal and greenhouse gas release to alarmingly
high. Only in China, more than 1.6 million people are dying due to pollution of air
annually. High carbon release has resulted from the heavy use of coal. The release
of Greenhouse gas has been reduced by 250,000 tons in China.
According to the EMCJ (Environment minister Chen Jining), 25 million tons of
greenhouse gases are continued to be emitted. Air pollution is still a fact of life in
most cities of China, though the enforcement of environmental laws has been
improved. This has been a great part of the climate change as noticed in past few
years (Chen, et. al., 2015). The rising rate of temperatures is much faster than
being noticed in past thousand years, approximately 2.5 times more as per
scientists in the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Temperatures are not seen
for 4.000 years with global average as confirmed by NASA. Temperatures of
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global can rise by 5-6 degrees Celsius by the end of this century cause of the rate
we are producing greenhouse gas emissions as found by the Stanford scientists
Noah Diffenbaugh and Chris Field. Extreme weather like floods, droughts, and
wildfires are already caused due to the rising temperatures.
1.2 Impacts and adaptation for the climate change
Impacts on the health of human from temperature variation, temperature is with the
lowest risk of mortality are 26.4 Celsius; temperature either below or above 26.4
Celsius increases the risk of death, above temperature increase the risk by 1.9%
and below temperature can increase the respiratory system disease by 1.2%.
Impacts of heat waves, which are hot periods of weather with are persistent from
the high temperature. Heat ways are not only lead to fatalities because of the heat
strokes but it increases the risk for humans and animals to suffer from the illnesses.
Heatwave effects vary from the time which is most evident in summer.
Impacts from the cold spells, this directly causes the disease and the injury to the
health of the humans and can lead to the death. Strong cold spells appear
occasionally, this hits in the areas of China which impact on the health of the
human.
Impacts from the air pollution, in the metropolitan area the haze is the wet air
pollution form, which has the tiny drops condense from pollutants, is the mixture
of fog, smoke, and chemical flumes (Qin, et.al., 2015). Ozone concentration is
formed by a photochemical reaction which occurs from the nitrogen oxide, organic
compounds and oxygen are the main elements of the smog of photochemical.
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The impact of the change in climate on the health of humans, scientific adaptation
strategies has adopted:
 Strengthen the surveillance of epidemic disease in potential areas: the
surveillance of epidemic disease is the strengthening of the areas which is a
transition between the epidemic and non-epidemic regions.
 Evaluate the health vulnerability to climate change: the different groups’
vulnerability should distinguish and the areas of the vulnerable should be
pointed out.
 Improve health and environment education: the public awareness and the
living environment on self-protection and the education of the health must be
improved.
 Conduct timely weather forecasting for the human health: the weather events
affect the health of the humans and the forecasting of the weather for the
extreme condition of the weather such as cold waves, heat waves should be
enhanced so that people can prevent themselves in the advance.
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2. Responsibility
The Republic of people in China is the active participant in the change of the climate
and claims to the challenges the environment and also other multilateral environment
negotiation but pushing the developed world to help the developing countries at the
great extent.
2.1 Who takes the responsibility of the climate change?
China stands ahead of all the countries in the output of greenhouse house gas.
China releases almost 10.4 billion of tons carbon dioxide from the industry and
fossil fuel. China pollution reflects its population which is 1.37 billion people, the
people of China are becoming richer, getting bigger homes, buying cars, air
conditioners and refrigerators have risen their emissions per capita which remains
much lower than the Americans. China has argued for long that the developing
countries should allow the rise their emissions as the citizens are growing out from
the poverty (Mi, et. al., 2017). In the emission of China, international pressure
plays the important part; but the main reason is the domestic as the economy is less
dependent on the industries of coal and discontent of the public over the pollution
of air. China is liable to the change in the climate, the CNC (China National
Climate Change Assessment) has reported about the global warming which leads
to the change in the extreme weather, level of rising in the sea, unstable production
of agriculture, glacier retreats and unbalanced distribution of the water; impacts the
social economic development and the health of the public.
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3. Prevention
These are the fundamental aspects; developing the framework for prevention is
determined about what the prevention actually means for the contexts of the
humanitarian. Prevention is used to develop the literature which is derived from the
health of the public field (Watts, et. al., 2015). There are different levels of
prevention which focus on the intervention which has specific problems is
includes:
 Primary prevention: this includes the approaches which take before the
violence occurs
 Secondary prevention: these are the responses for mitigating the short term
violence’s consequences; these are the responses which take part after the
violence has occurred.
 Tertiary prevention: these are the long-term responses which deal with the
perpetrator treatment interventions and lasting consequence of the violence.
3.1 Preventive structure from the climate change in China
The preventive structure for the climate change was made by the government of
China; greenhouse gas control work plan was made for the climate negotiation.
The plan was released by the state council to control the GHG emission (Chinese).
This plan begins by reiterating the goal of the climate: China is going to peak its
release of CO2 and make it the best as soon as possible. The plan which is set out
of its policies which is related to reducing and controlling the release of the CO2
which include the reiterating goal to reduce the intensity of China’s carbon by the
18% and reduce the energy by 15%, increases the non-fossil energy to the 15%of
the mix of energy. The control work plan of GHG reiterates the total consumption
of energy cap target by the 5.0 billion of the equivalent of the coal.
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