Adaptation

We have been enduring extreme weather events as one of the consequences. This has had a serious negative impact on lives and livelihoods and threatened both food and more generally economic and social security.

Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting and responding to current or expected climate change and its effects and impacts, which are already real in South Africa. The IPCC WG1 report confirms that we are already operating at +1.0 degrees globally and significantly higher in the Southern African region.

The PCC is well positioned to accelerate the finalization of the strategies to implement the National Adaptation Plan and the development and implementation of the individual Sectoral Adaptation Plans. The PCC will further facilitate the development of new knowledge, commission projects to pilot and demonstrate new or better and innovative implementation and development pathways as well as catalysing access to Adaptation finance.

The PCC will also facilitate Climate Adaptation partnerships both locally and internationally. These actions are intended to shorten the journey to an economy and society characterized by Resilience and Equity.