# climate

- Link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/climate/
- Published: 2018-06-14T16:21:38+02:00
- Author: dearSA

# The Department of Environmental Affairs invites interested parties to submit written comments on the proposed draft Climate Change Bill

### You are invited to object or support the Climate Change Bill by providing comment below. Should you be at a loss for words, read the live comments or official documents below the form. Feel free to copy and paste into the message area provided.   _Closing date is midnight 8 August 2018._

**Add your comment now.**

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comment is immediately sent as a **unique email** to the designated government representative,
comments must, by law, be individually acknowledged and considered by the Government.
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our encrypted database) so government cannot fudge facts and figures. This process
forms a solid foundation for a legal case should the necessity arise.

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[whatsapp url=”https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/climate” title=”*GOVERNMENT WANTS YOUR
COMMENT ON THE CLIMATE CHANGE BILL.* All persons must submit a climate change plan
and will be allocated a Carbon Budget by the Minister. Those failing to comply will
face fines of up to R10 million and/or 10 years imprisonment. This bill takes control
of all three spheres of government namely national, provincial and local. *PLEASE
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## SUMMARY

 * The bill determines that all persons must submit a climate change plan and will
   be allocated a Carbon Budget by the Minister. Those failing to comply with the
   allocation will face fines of up to R10 million and/or 10 years imprisonment.
 * The purpose of the Bill is to build an effective climate change response and 
   ensure the long-term, just transition to a climate resilient and lower carbon
   economy and society.
 * This will be done within the context of sustainable development for South Africa,
   and will provide for all matters related to climate change.
 * The Bill acknowledges that anthropogenic climate change represents an urgent 
   threat to human societies and the environment, and requires an effective, progressive
   and well-coordinated  response.
 * It further highlights that, amongst others, anticipated domestic climate change
   impacts have the potential to undermine the country’s development goals, and 
   that responses to climate change raise unique challenges, thus requiring a legislative
   framework for the implementation of the country’s national climate change response.
 * The National Climate Change Bills addresses issues related institutional and 
   coordination arrangement across the three spheres of government namely national,
   provincial and local.
 * It further highlights the need for the spheres of government and entities, sectors
   as well business to respond to challenges of  climate change.
 * The bill further address the matters relating to, the national adaptation to 
   impacts of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions and removals, and policy 
   alignment and institutional arrangements.

**The objects of the proposed Act are to:**

 * Provide for the  coordinated and integrated response to climate change and its
   impacts by all spheres of government in accordance with the principles of cooperative
   governance;
 * Provide for the effective management of inevitable climate change impacts through
   enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability
   to climate change, with a view to building social, economic, and environmental
   resilience and an adequate national adaptation response in the context of the
   global climate change response;  and to
 * Make a fair contribution to the global effort to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations
   in the atmosphere at a level that avoids dangerous anthropogenic interference
   with the climate system within a timeframe and in a manner that enables economic,
   employment, social and environmental development to proceed in a sustainable 
   manner.

## DOCUMENTS

Download the [Socio-Economic Impact Assessment Report and memorandum of objects](https://www.environment.gov.za/sites/default/files/docs/seia_climatebill.pdf)

Download the [National Climate Change Bill](http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Climate_Chane_Bill.pdf)

![Climate change bill](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/
06/20191412/Climate-change-bill.jpg "Climate change bill")

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