China confronts climate change provides a unique perspective on how bottom up initiatives are emerging as central to the potential for china to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions it provides an important analysis for those concerned with chinas role in responding to climate change and new insights into how cities are at the forefront of this challenge. China confronts climate change a bottom up perspective routledge advances in climate change research amazonde koehn peter h university of montana usa bucher. This book is based on peter h koehns analysis of his own and published research on climate change governance in china the book offers general and expert readers alike a broad and comprehensive view of the conceptualizations origins critiques and implementation challenges of climate mitigation in china the narrative is fluid and despite a large volume of information makes for fascinating reading each chapter contains didactic boxes of supporting cases and policy initiatives the . These actions must come from bottom up as well as top down and china is indispensable to drive those actionschina confronts climate change provides a refreshing look at the non state actors and subnational and transnational efforts and what a bottom up approach can offer in addressing climate change challenges zhihong zhang senior program coordinator climate investment funds the world bank group china confronts climate change provides a unique perspective on how bottom up . China confronts climate change provides a unique perspective on how bottom up initiatives are emerging as central to the potential for china to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions it provides an important analysis for those concerned with chinas role in responding to climate change and new insights into how cities are at the forefront of this challenge