Draft Second Biennial Update Report (BUR-2) and the draft 5th Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory to the UNFCCC
The Department of Environmental Affairs has published the draft Second Biennial Update Report (BUR-2) and the draft 5th Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for public comments. "The Department of Environmental Affairs worked with several stakeholders in compiling South Africa’s 2nd Biennial Update Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The BUR-2 is considered to be report of the Government of South Africa as it captures South Africa’s response to climate change with emphasis on climate change mitigation. Mitigation actions towards climate change are implemented across different government departments; state owned entities as well as the private sector. This also includes the financing of implementing the mitigation actions which supported domestically as well internationally though bilateral and multilateral agreements foreign agreements."
The GHG National Inventory Report South Africa 2000 – 2012 "documents South Africa’s submission of its national greenhouse gas inventory for the year 2012. It also reports on the GHG trends for the period 2000 to 2012.It is in accordance with the guidelines provided by the UNFCCC and follows the 2006 IPCC Guidelines and IPCC Good Practice Guidance (GPG)."