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=== Box 13.3 | China’s Climate Change Institutions ===

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Climate governance in China features a combination of top-down planning and vertical accountability ( [[#Sims%20Gallagher--2019|Sims Gallagher and Xuan 2019]] ; [[#Teng--2021|Teng and Wang 2021]] ). An overarching coordination role is performed by the Leading Group on Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality, appointed by and reporting to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and the National Leading Group on Climate Change Response, Energy Conservation, and Emissions Reduction (NLGCCR), headed by the Premier and consisting of more than 30 ministers ( [[#Wang--2018a|Wang et al. 2018a]] ). The Department of Climate Change (DCC) under the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) is the primary agency in charge of climate issues, with a corresponding local Bureau of Ecology and Environment in each province or city. While MEE is the leading agency for climate policy, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is the leading agency for setting overall and industry-specific targets in five-year plans, and thus has a key role in coordinating carbon emissions targets with energy and industrial development targets ( [[#Wang--2019|Wang et al. 2019]] ; [[#Yu--2021|Yu 2021]] ). Involvements of ministries related to foreign affairs, public finance, science and technology, as well as sector ministries such as transportation, construction, and manufacturing industries are also needed to push forward sector-specific climate initiatives. At subsidiary levels of government carbon intensity targets are enforced through a ‘targets and responsibilities’ system that is directly linked to the evaluation of governments’ performances ( [[#Lin--2012a|Lin 2012a]] ; [[#Li--2016|Li et al. 2016]] ).

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