Branch: Climate Change and Air Quality
Management
Minister’s Stakeholder Workshop
Protea Hotel OR Tambo
01 August 2013
The Branch Structure
DDG: CC&AQM:
Ms. Judy Beaumont
Directorate:
Administration and
Co-Ordination (5)
Chief Directorate:
Climate Change
Mitigation (7)
Chief Directorate:
Climate Change
Adaptation (4)
Chief Directorate:
International
Climate Change and
Negotiations (7)
Chief Directorate:
Climate Change
Monitoring and
Evaluation (8)
Chief Directorate:
Air Quality
Management
National Environmental Management: Air
Quality Act (39) of 2004 - AQA
• AQA presents a distinct shift from exclusively
source-based air pollution control (Air Pollution
Prevention Act of 1965) to holistic and integrated
effects-based air quality management
• Establishment of National Ambient Air Quality
Standards (2009) – S9:
– Defines air that is safe and not harmful to human health and
well-being in line with Section 24 (b) of the Constitution of the
Republic
– Establishment of government-owned monitoring stations (84)
according to S8 of the Act to monitor and report compliance to
the national ambient air quality standards as contemplated in the
2007 National Framework for Air Quality Management
South African Air Quality Information
System (SAAQIS)
• Contemplated in the 2007 National Framework
– SAAQIS was established in July 2007 and a partnership formed
with the SAWS who is the custodian
– Information Dissemination Tool for air quality publications and
reporting
• Phase 1: Ambient Air Quality Module
– Where 72 government-owned monitoring stations are reporting
and a total of 95 are reporting due to privately owned stations
that are reporting (Private Owners: Eskom, Sasol and Richards
Bay Clean Air Association)
• Phase 2: National Atmospheric Emissions
Inventory
– System developed – currently training has been held
– System is being populated as this is the pilot phase
National Air Quality Priority Areas – S18
• Declaration of Priority areas:
– Ambient standards are being exceeded
– Minister or MEC reasonably believes that such may be the case
• Currently 3 areas have been declared:
– Vaal Triangle Airshed Priority Area: AQMP gazetted and under
implementation
– Highveld Priority Area: AQMP gazetted and under
implementation
– Waterberg-Bojanala Priority Area: (precautionary declaration)
and AQMP and Threat Assessment under development
• Main Sources of Pollution in the Priority Areas
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–
–
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Industrial Emissions (various industrial complexes) – APPA consequences
Domestic Burning of Dirty Fuels in highly populated areas
Mining Operations
Vehicle Emissions
Emissions Management
• Industrial Emissions:
– S21 listed activities and associated minimum emission standards
established in 2010 and amendment almost completed
– Atmospheric Emissions Licensing – focused management of
industrial pollution
– S23 – declaration of Small Boilers as Controlled Emitters
• Domestic Burning
– Draft Strategy has been developed
– Stakeholder consultation to be held by November 2013
• Vehicle Emissions
– Draft Strategy has been developed and is being finalised
– Stakeholder consultation has been held
• Mining Dust
– Regulations for the control of dust: developed
– Consultation completed and regulations being finalised
50
National average SO2
40
Median SO2
SO2 national annual
averaged
30
20
10
0
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
th
th
90 - 10 percentile of annual PM10 averages
Year
80
NAAQS PM10
Average of stations annual PM10 averages
PM10 national annual
averaged
PM10 concentrations (g/m3)
SO2 concentrations (ppb)
90th-10th Percentile
NAAQS SO2
Median of station annual PM10 averages
60
40
20
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
PM10
SO2
1.0
SO2, PM10
NAAQS
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
Year
NAQI
1.2
National Indicator (PM10-SO2)
PM10-SO2 ratios normalised to NAAQS
1.2
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
Year
NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE
RESPONSE POLICY
• Overview of approach to implementation
• Key priorities
• Assess mitigation potential
• Assess costs / benefits
• Agree DEROs and mix of
measures to achieve
• Mainstream in sector plans
• Catalyse implementation
• Consensus CC scenarios
• Impact scenarios in key
sectors
• Assess costs
• Agree adaptation
responses per sector
• Mainstream in sector plans
• Catalyse implementation
Adaptation
Mitigation
Mobilise
resources
Mobilise
resources
Build science
platform
Build science
platform
Raise
Awareness
Raise
Awareness
• Design M&E system
• Track progress to lower
carbon, climate resilient
society
• GHG inventory
• 3rd Nat Communications
- UNFCCC
Monitoring
and
evaluation
Climate
Change
Flagships
•
•
•
•
Consolidate programs
Identify barriers
Assess scale-up potential
Leverage private and public
sector funding
Towards a national response to
climate change
• Extensive work is underway, across government and other
organisations. Key issue is to organise, achieve coherence,
monitor impact and move towards a collective national response
• Towards a national response:
– Adaptation: Programmes need to use a common set of
climate scenarios, and likely impact scenarios, and build in
systems for scaling up, and for monitoring impact & outcome
– Mitigation: Programmes need to contribute to a single agreed
set of desired emission reduction outcomes (DEROs); and
contribute to single system for measuring outcome (emission
reductions)
– Monitoring and evaluation: coherent system to monitor
outcome of collective response
– A finance and technology platform
– Skills building programme
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Adaptation
POLICY REQUIREMENTS
DELIVERABLES THIS YEAR
Climate risk analysis on
•
sectoral plans, resulting in:
•
(i) identification and
prioritisation of key short
•
and medium term
adaptation interventions;
(ii) identification of
adaptation responses that
require co-ordination
between specific sectors
and / or departments”
Consensus climate change scenarios for SA.
Climate Change Impact Scenarios for key sectors
Adaptation response options and opportunities
for key sectors (water, agriculture, biodiversity,
health), and cross-sectoral adaptation needs
• Potential climate change impacts on
infrastructure (co-ordinated by Treasury)
• Economic modelling of impacts costs and
avoided damages of adaptation
Methodology to downscale • Policy review to support policy alignment (policy
climate information and
elements that support / constrain adaptation)
impact assessments to
specific geographical areas • Plans and projects by provincial and local
to be developed
government
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Mitigation
POLICY REQUIREMENTS
DELIVERABLES THIS YEAR
Desired emission
• Report that develops the reference case for GHG
reduction outcomes will be
emission projections to 2050;
defined
• Possible emission reduction pathways per sector,
The optimal combination
based on identified mitigation opportunities
of mitigation measures
(including carbon budgets) • Assessment of wider socio-economic and
to be drawn up, to achieve
environmental impacts (costs and benefits)
the DEROs. Such
measures must have the
• 2050 calculator which demonstrates different
least cost to- and the
pathways of emissions over coming decades
greatest sustainable
development benefits for
• National sinks assessment
the relevant sector and or
national economy.
• Policy review and mainstreaming of mitigation
measures in existing policy /strategy and gaps;
• Discussion document that links instrument
measures for achieving emission reductions, to
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the potential for reducing emissions and
Monitoring and reporting
POLICY REQUIREMENTS
DELIVERABLES THIS YEAR
A draft climate change
response monitoring and
evaluation system will be
designed and published
• Launch of the GHG inventory: 2000 – 2010
The emissions inventory
will be a web-based GHG
emission reporting system
and will form part of the
National Atmospheric
Emission Inventory
component of SAAQIS. It
will be developed, tested
and commissioned
• National climate change response database
• Description of the climate change response
monitoring and evaluation system
• Key indicators for the transition to a lower carbon
and climate resilient economy, drawn from the
existing national policy framework
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CC response flagships
POLICY REQUIREMENTS
DELIVERABLES THIS YEAR
A framework for
implementation of the
flagship programmes:;
including:
• A programme for
implementation
• A detailed analysis of
mitigation or adaptation
outcomes expected
• A proposal for realising
local sustainable
development benefits
• A well-defined reporting
format, to include a set
of relevant indicators,
and a proposal to
establish an annual
reporting process
Launch of the accreditation system for the national
climate change response flagship programme.
Frameworks for the implementation of following
climate change response flagship programmes:
waste management, adaptation research, and public
works flagship programmes.
Showcasing of climate change response flagship
projects by government, and stakeholders.
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Approach to Implementation
Coordination by Department
Implementation
of Environmental
Affairs
of NCCRP
Technical
Working Group
on Adaptation
Technical
Working Group
on Mitigation
Technical
Working Group
on Monitoring &
Evaluation
Task Teams
Transport
Energy
Industry
AFOLU
Waste
Communications events this year
• National Air Quality Management Lekgotla: focusing on air quality
governance
• National Climate Services Workshop: The South African Weather
Service in partnership with DEA and WMO: 19 - 22 August 2013,
Pretoria. Exploratory workshop focussing on how to consolidate climate
change information and services.
• IPCC SREX National Outreach Event, South Africa: The DEA, IPCC,
SAWS, NDMC, Academia, will host the IPCC SREX National Outreach
Event, October 2013. Focuses on how integrating expertise in climate
science, disaster risk management, and adaptation can inform
discussions on reducing and managing risks of extreme events
• Launch of the climate change response toolkit and guide that aims
to support the integration of climate change response into municipal
development planning tools such as IDP and municipal sector plan
• Roundtable on mitigation: focussing on approach to the development
of the desired emission reduction outcomes and measures to achieve
DEROs
Thank You