Quantifying the economic loss from climate change in China is crucial for 
 understanding the potential costs and benefits of climate policy within the context of carbon 
 neutrality. This study develops a multidisciplinary and integrated assessment framework for 
 climate damage, which uses the Beijing Climate Center Simple Earth System Model (BCC-SESM) 
 to estimate climatic data under the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) scenarios with 
 the medium Shared Social-economic Pathway (SSP2) scenario in China. This paper estimates 
 climate damage in eight major sectors by a bottom-up approach, makes substantive revisions and 
 calibrations for the sectoral climate damage functions and parameters for China based on the 
 FUND model, and formulates the aggregate climate damage function. Results show that under the 
 Business-as-Usual RCP8.5 scenario, by 2050 human health damage accounts for the largest share 
(61.92%) of the total climate loss, followed by sea-level rise damage (18.57%) and water resources 
 damage (5.84%). Climate damage in non-market sectors reaches 14.64 trillion CNY, which is a 
4.8-fold increase over the climate damage of market sectors which is only 3.02 trillion CNY. The 
 total climate damage function for China is a quadratic function of temperature rise, with climate 
damage of 5.36%, 5.67%, 5.74%, and 8.16% of the GDP by 2050 under RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6.0, 
 and RCP8.5 respectively, indicating that the marginal climate damage increases non-linearly with 
 temperature rise.                            
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