Fujian Coastal Cities Climate-Resilient Development and Biodiversity Conservation Project

The proposed Fujian Coastal Cities Climate-Resilient Development and Biodiversity Conservation Project aims to address the significant climate change risks and hazards, and biodiversity loss challenges of two coastal cities in Fujian, China. The project seeks to improve urban climate change resilience and biodiversity, leveraging a strategic knowledge partnership between the two cities, the province, and the national government. The project's objectives include enhancing institutions' capacity for coastal climate and biodiversity action, improving resilience green and gray infrastructure, and implementing biodiversity conservation and enhancement measures in coastal wetlands and mangroves.

Key Takeaways:

• The project will focus on two coastal cities in Fujian, China, addressing climate change risks and biodiversity loss challenges.
• Three outputs are proposed: enhancing institutions' capacity, improving resilience green and gray infrastructure, and implementing biodiversity conservation and enhancement measures.
• Output 1 will strengthen capacity of institutions and interagency coordination on risk-informed and gender-responsive climate and biodiversity conservation actions, including consulting services and investments in ICT platforms.
• Output 2 includes structural and non-structural measures, such as green and gray flood risk management infrastructure, an emergency response center, and related digitalization equipment and cross-sector ICT platforms.
• Output 3 will focus on conservation of wetlands and mangroves in national nature reserves and biodiversity habitat expansion through wetland and mangrove restoration and sustainable agriculture and aquaculture practices in buffer and experimental zones.
• The project will benefit from a strategic knowledge partnership between the two cities, the province, and the national government, providing lessons and potential replication for other coastal cities in Fujian Province and the PRC.
• The project has a total budget of US$200 million, sourced from a loan from the Asian Development Bank.

Statistics:

• Project budget: US$200 million
• Loan from the Asian Development Bank
• Project area: Two coastal cities in Fujian, China
• Project duration: 2028-12-31
• Project financier: Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Project completion date: 2028-12-31

Sources:

• "Fujian Coastal Cities Climate-Resilient Development and Biodiversity Conservation Project" (Asian Development Bank, no date)
• "Country context. The People's Republic of China (PRC) has been moving from a growth-focused strategy towards quality and sustainability, with green and inclusive development" (Asian Development Bank, no date)