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Vaal Environmental Justice
Alliance
Presentation to the Port-folio Committee on Environment
Date 22 September 2015
Cape Town
By Alphonsinah Sebolelo Mafisa
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VEJA Positions
Water and Climate Change
Emission
Mitigation and adaptation
Position
• VEJA passion of COP 21 Paris conference is that the
conference need to address governments failure to sign a
meaningful agreement at the UNFCCC
• South african delegation to the COP21 must not allow for
the develop world to push for 2 degree Celsius. We cannot
afford any further increases. We cannot afford more than
1.5 degree Celsius
• We call on the strong and binding mechanisms that will
address the current effect of climate change especially on
the emerging small scale farmers, women, youth and rural
poor
• COP 21 delegate must represent the interest of the poor
and disadvantages
Water and climate change
• South Africa is a country of water shortages
and the climate change is having a negative
effect on our water resources NWRS2
• The annual rainfall of about 464 mm per
annual
• With the current situation of climate impact –
the scenarios shows that the will be a
reduction of water availability
The changes of water patterns
• South Africa will be more affected if the UNFCCC
does not develop mechanisms that will address
the long term effect of Climate Change
• It estimated that the costal lines they will be see
more rainfalls
• In the interior and western parts of the country,
climate change is likely to lead to more intense
and prolong droughts to the future
Emission
• VEJA believe that South African Contribution
to climate change will be increased in the
future as Government fails to regulate
contributors of big green house gas emissions
• Our environment and planet cannot sustained
the current economic models and the impact
of climate change is increasing and the Paris
COP must not be other political parade, as our
positions is South Africa must be, below 1.5
degree Celsius and binding
Adaptation and mitigation
• South Africa need ambitions actions for air
quality and climate change mitigations
• There must be allocation of financial resource
for mitigation of affected communities
• VTPA plans to reduce Emission must be
rational inters of timing scope and reduction
targets to accommodate sustainable
development.
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