ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the empirical context for the analysis of climate governance in the three southern Chinese cities. By analysing the urban attributes, resource capacity, political structure and climate-policy development in the three cities under study, we contextualise CMNs in a loosely bounded sociopolitical system that connects the national regime and the global city networks. In the first section of the chapter, we shall present the cities’ socio-economic profiles, their relationships with the national climate regime and the central-regional-municipal administrative structures. The second section reviews the recent developments in climate mitigation policy.
