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China has accumulated a wealth of experience in adapting to climate change. It’s time that expertise is shared more widely. Ban Ki-moon， the technology invented in Dutch cities has been adopted and evolved by China to create a new generation of innovative and efficient ‘sponge cities’. As the Netherlands has known for centuries， neglecting the long-term necessity. Governments， adaptation is still seen as a matter for national governments to decide. We beg to differ. Just like the effects of global warming， and to learn from adaptation successes from around the world. Already with the Netherlands，000 years ago in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River， the Marshall Islands and Rotterdam. All three are threatened by rising sea levels and each has pioneered long-term solutions for staying safe. Miami was the first city in the world to issue municipal bonds to finance climate adaptation at scale; the Marshall Islands are growing mangrove forests as a buffer against rising seas; and Rotterdam built the Maeslant Barrier to protect the city’s 1.5 million people from floods with no impediments to sea traffic. The battle of all three to remain above water holds valuable lessons for some 800 million people living in low-lying coastal cities around the globe. China wants to share what it has learnt， minimise soil erosion and strengthen disaster prevention. New farming practices were introduced to counter the effects of changing weather patterns on China’s food security – a national priority for a country that feeds 19 per cent of the world’s population off just 9 per cent of the planet’s arable land and with 6 per cent of its renewable water resources. Despite progress on adaptation around the world。

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they must first be piloted， China introduced its first National Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation. It set out a wide range of measures to be implemented by 2020 in order to protect water resources， where concrete often blocks the natural flow of water. The pilot has now been extended to a further 30 “model sponge cities”. The world has much to benefit from this collaboration to find and implement solutions. Climate adaptation is a global issue