Climate Change and Sustainability in South Africa
What to expect from COP 17?
Sheryl Ozinsky
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10 november 2011
• climate change is real.
• The average temperature
of the Earth is increasing.
• This is almost certainly
due to OUR influence on the environment.
No LONGER ANY DOUBT
Greenhouse Effect
• Southern Africa is likely to have 30% less winter rain by the turn of the century
• In South Africa’s Western Highveld, the temperature is expected to get much
hotter (4-7°C by the end of this century) and harvests of maize expected to
drop by 10-20% by 2050.
• Between 25-40% of animals in national parks of Southern Africa may be
critically endangered or locally extinct by the end of this century.
• In the Western Cape: 20% to 40% of protea plants may disappear because of
hotter temperatures.
How DID
THE
HUMAN
RACE
COME
ABOUT?
“There is a lot of expectation on the South African government to achieve
substantial progress in the COP 17 negotiations.”
Mandeep Tiwana, CIVICUS, global civil society alliance
Conference of the Parties (COP) Timeline
Dummy’s guide to COP 17
17th session of the Conference
of the Parties to the UN
Framework Convention on
Climate Change (COP 17)
To try and establish a legally
binding agreement to combat
climate change through
multilateral negotiations.
192 nations and 15 000
members of civil society.
The Kyoto Protocol of 1997
only legally binding
agreement.
Future of Kyoto and how to
prevent the average
temperature of the earth from
rising more than 2 degrees
Celsius.
So why
can’t the
nations of
the world
agree?
CRUNCH TIME FOR KYOTO
Why did Copenhagen fail?
Why is South Africa the host?
CAN South Africa BROKER A DEAL?
VOICES OF THE PEOPLE
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