Cabinet has approved the establishment of the Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission, at its ordinary meeting this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe commission will coordinate the just transition of our country to a low carbon climate and resilient economy and society by 2050,\u201d said a statement issued by the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The structure will be represented by government, its social partners, civil society and experts from academia and research institutions. <\/p>\n
South Africa is the signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). <\/p>\n
Cabinet\u2019s decision is in line with the Presidential Job Summit Framework Agreement signed during the Presidential Job Summit in 2018.<\/p>\n
Low Emission Development (LED) Strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n Cabinet also approved the submission of the country\u2019s Low Emission Development (LED) Strategy to the UNFCCC Secretariat.<\/p>\n \u201cThis LED Strategy will advance the national climate change and development policy in a more coordinated, coherent and strategic manner. It provides mitigation measures focusing on four key sectors of the economy, namely energy; industry; agriculture, forestry and land use; and waste,\u201d said the statement issued following Cabinet\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n Waste Management Strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n The National Waste Management Strategy (NWMS) 2020 was also approved and will replace the NWMS 2011.<\/p>\n The waste management strategy gives into effect the terms of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act 59 of 2008).<\/p>\n It directs the environmental protection programmes and drives a sustainable and an environmentally friendly, inclusive economic growth, with three focus pillars \u2013 waste minimisation, effective and sustainable services, and waste awareness and compliance. – SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cabinet has approved the establishment of the Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission, at its ordinary meeting this week. \u201cThe commission will coordinate the just transition of our country to a low carbon climate and resilient economy and society by 2050,\u201d said a statement issued by the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) on Thursday. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-165330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}