# hearings

- Link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/climate/hearings/
- Published: 2018-06-14T16:33:14+02:00
- Author: dearSA

A Series of Provincial Stakeholder Engagement Workshops at which all stakeholders
and interested parties will be able to comment on the National Climate Change Bill
will be hosted by the Department countrywide. Further arrangement are made to cover
the remainder of the nine provinces. The Department will on an ongoing basis update
the schedule for meeting in other provinces.

**Meetings scheduled for June 2019 are to be held as follows**:

  |  DATE |  VENUE |  TIME |  
 |  12 June 2018 |  Savoy Hotel, Mthatha |  09:00 |  
 |  14 June 2018 |  The Beach Hotel, Port Elizabeth |  09:00 |  
 |  15 June 2018 |  Southern Sun Elangeni, Durban |  09:00 |  
 |  26 June 2018 |  Nkangala District Municipality Council Chambers, Middleburg |  09:00 |  
 |  28 June 2018 |  Protea Hotel Kimberley |  09:00 |  
 |  29 June 2018 |  The President Hotel, Bloemfontein |  09:00 |

[ Comment on the Climate Change Bill](https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/climate/)

## 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 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.