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‘Why do you want to decommission things that work?’ Minister in the Presidency responsible for electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa asked workers at Grootvlei.

A debate at the second Local Government Environment Indaba in Kempton Park last week looked at reasons for the failure of municipalities to implement climate mitigation strategies — despite a number of policies on climate adaptation being in place for more than a decade.

The government has declared a National State of Disaster to enable an ‘intensive, coordinated response’ to the floods that have devastated parts of seven of South Africa’s nine provinces.

Flooding in the eastern and northeastern provinces has resulted in death, damage and destruction.

At a stakeholder feedback session to discuss the outcomes of COP15 in December 2022, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy emphasised that financing is vital if we are to implement the global targets agreed upon.