The MEC for Rural, Environment and Agricultural Development, Manketsi Tlhape will host and address the North West Provincial COP 21 Stakeholder Consultation Workshop. The year 2015 is crucial in the Climate Change policy discourse, as the international negotiations of a new legal agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that is applicable to all for the period from 2020 onwards, is scheduled to be completed in December 2015 at COP 21 in Paris.
The national Department of Environmental Affairs, in partnership with provincial environmental departments, is in a process of hosting a broader set of stakeholder consultations in the lead up to COP 21 in December 2015. The consultations will provide an opportunity to discuss the South African position, fill gaps and build a common understanding and approach towards Paris, and develop a common South African position on the framing of our nationally determined contribution, prior to communicating this to the UNFCCC secretariat, by COP21.
These provincial engagements will provide an opportunity to raise awareness, mobilise, inform and engage with key stakeholder groups and the general public around climate change issues, and climate change response efforts at all levels.
The Workshop would be held as follows:
- Date: Monday, 07 September 2015
- Venue: Kedar Heritage Lodge in Rustenburg
- Time: 09h30
Members of the media are invited to attend and cover this informative activity.
Enquiries:
Ms Thandiwe Moripe-Thabethe
Tel: 018 389 5337/8
Cell: 071 862 4270
E-mail: tmoripe@nwpg.gov.za
