South Africa: National Adaptation Strategy

"South Africa’s draft National Adaptation Strategy – is intended to be the cornerstone for climate change adaptation in the country and to reflect a unified, coherent, cross-sectoral, economy-wide approach to climate change adaptation. It signals priority areas for adaptation response, both to provide guidance to adaptation efforts around the country and to be a point of resource to inform resource allocation to climate change adaptation.

Specifically, the NAS will: • Act as the primary guidance document for climate change adaptation efforts in South Africa, providing direction for all levels of government; • Inform national, provincial and local development planning; • Help gauge the degree to which development initiatives at different levels of government integrate and reflect critical climate change adaptation priorities, and thus inform levels of resource allocation from revenue streams related to climate change resilience; • Support South Africa in meeting its international obligations by demonstrating progress on climate change adaptation, and also serve as South Africa’s national adaptation plan; and • Guide stronger coherence and coordination on climate change adaptation between different institutions and levels of government."