CLIMATE CHANGE: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT UNFCCC UPDATE REPORT

CLIMATE CHANGE: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT UNFCCC UPDATE REPORT

• 19 August 2023
• Environmental Law
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries & the Environment has called for comments by 17 September 2023 on a draft biennial update report prepared in terms of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change requirements.

The document includes the national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory 2000 – 2020, which reflects:

• an increase in energy and waste-related emissions
• a decline in emissions from industrial process and product use, as well as from agriculture, forestry and other land use
• an increase in waste-related emissions, and
• an overall increase in land carbon sink, which is attributed to intensified reforestation efforts and reduced fuelwood collection and biomass burning.

According to the draft report:

• mitigation actions have contributed towards keeping South Africa’s GHG emission trajectory within a peak-plateau-and-decline range set in 2015, and
• the web-based National Climate Change Information System tracking and analysis platform is now fully operational, and progress has been made in institutionalising the system provincially.

Please click the links below for more information:

• draft report
• Government Gazette notice

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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