China Confronts Climate Change shows that bottom-up initiatives offer a key current prospect for engaging rising China in robust and urgently required GHG-emissions-mitigation actions. This book offers the first fully comprehensive account of China's response to climate change, based on a sound engagement with the global climate governance literature and contemporary debates as well as significant expertise about the Chinese context beyond the climate change arena. For those interested in China's climate politics and urban and local responses to climate change, this book offers a unique set of perspectives and empirical material and is an invaluable resource for this important area of research.