South Africa: Three Reasons Why South Africa Should Pass Its Climate Change Bill

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A Draft Climate Change Bill is being consulted through the length and breadth of South Africa before going to Parliament. Here is why it is essential for this bill to become law in the near future.

South Africa has a solid climate change policy - the National Climate Change Response White Paper adopted in 2011 - but it is a truism that setting up a policy in this country is no guarantee of its implementation.

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