{"id":207901,"date":"2021-11-10T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T07:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/creecy-emphasises-importance-of-addressing-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T07:32:03","slug":"creecy-emphasises-importance-of-addressing-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/creecy-emphasises-importance-of-addressing-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Creecy emphasises importance of addressing climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the African continent facing the full impact of the climate emergency, the region cannot delay its climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts, says Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Barbara Creecy. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor Africa, as a region that is particularly vulnerable to climate change, delayed climate action is not an option. We are facing the full impacts of the climate emergency, even as we struggle to overcome the devastating socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic that has exacerbated Africa\u00b4s Special Needs and Circumstances,\u201d the Minister said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Addressing the high-level segment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 26 in Glasgow, United Kingdom, she said Africa\u2019s sustainable development efforts have been set back.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur message to the international community is clear \u2013 we need your support now more than ever before to achieve our climate objectives, in the context of a Just Transition,\u201d Creecy said.<\/p>\n

South Africa is making progress on its climate goals as the country has established the Presidential Climate Commission, adopted the National Adaptation Strategy, implemented an enhanced Mitigation system with robust monitoring and evaluation and has developed a long-term low emissions strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have submitted our updated and significantly more ambitious Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ahead of COP 26. This brings forward the peaking of our emissions by a decade and contains detailed information on adaptation and the support we require from the international community.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrue to the letter and spirit of the Paris Agreement, the lower end of our 2030 updated target emission range is consistent with a 1.5-degree pathway, while the upper end of the range is consistent with a 2-degree pathway. Where we get to in this range will depend on the international support we receive,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n

In addition, South Africa is developing detailed plans to enable a Just Transition to a low carbon economy and climate resilient society.<\/p>\n

These plans will locate support for affected workers and communities and will be at the centre of these plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo ensure that we have a balanced outcome at COP26, we need to send a clear signal that all three priorities of the Paris Agreement will be advanced with equal determination.<\/p>\n

She said developed countries need to honour their obligations to provide finance and technical support.<\/p>\n

 \u201cTo re-establish trust, we need developed countries to honour current obligations to provide finance and technical support. We must also move with speed to activate the post-2025 Finance Goal because we on the African Continent know that if we are to sustain the notion that COP26 is the \u201cAmbition COP\u201d, we need a clearly defined ambitious long-term finance goal,\u201d the Minister said. \u2013SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the African continent facing the full impact of the climate emergency, the region cannot delay its climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts, says Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Barbara Creecy.  \u201cFor Africa, as a region that is particularly vulnerable to climate change, delayed climate action is not an option. We are facing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207902,"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-207901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/creecy-emphasises-importance-of-addressing-climate-change.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207901","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=207901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}