Climate change is no longer a future problem – it’s happening now, and having dramatic impacts, especially on vulnerable countries and including on our own continent.
Climate action is necessary on all fronts – ambitious mitigation to reduce impacts, ambitious adaptation, to cope with impacts and build long-term resilience, and measures to address loss and damage, where impacts cannot be avoided.
All of these require financing, structured in a way that developing countries can afford, and enhanced international co-operation, both to address climate mitigation and impacts, and to make progress in meeting the sustainable development goals.
Climate change requires a response which addresses social, economic and environmental challenges. Without a united, whole-of-society response, at a national and multilateral level, these impacts will only worsen. South Africa is aligning its domestic…
