Thoughts on addressing climate change

Abstract The climate change is the global issue widely concerned by the international society, which is related to the overall situation of China’s economic and social development. This paper illustrates the international mechanism of adapting to climate change, discriminates the connotation of response planning, including the connotation of mitigation planning, and the connotation of adaptation planning. This paper also establishes the planning research framework regarding the response to climate change, including the planning research framework regarding the climate change mitigation, and the adapting to climate change. In addition, this paper also introduces the actions and measures of major countries to address the climate change, defines China’s strategy and target for addressing climate change, and points out how to combat the challenges of climate change in China. Besides, this paper further illustrates China’s key tasks of scientific and technical actions for addressing climate change, and provides the suggestions regarding China’s response to climate change.