The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dr. Dion George, has officially published South Africa’s 9th National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report in Gazette Number: 52067 of 7 February 2025.
The National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report (NIR) covers the period 2000-2022 and provides estimates of the current emissions levels and trends in South Africa and will form part of the First Biennial Transparency Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). South Africa is required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to provide in its national inventory, on gas-by-gas basis, and its units’ mass, estimates of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), by sources and removals by sinks. An accurate, complete, and updated greenhouse gas emissions inventory is a good foundation for effective mitigation responses. The 9th NIR is compiled in accordance with the standard National Inventory Report format in line with the Convention Reporting Guidelines.
In 1997 the Republic of South Africa ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992 (Convention). The Republic of South Africa is obliged under articles 4(1)(a) and 12(1)(a) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Convention), to prepare and report on national Greenhouse Gas emissions and removals to the Conference of the Parties (COP). The main objective of the Convention is to stabilize Greenhouse Gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human-induced interference with the climate change system.
The primary use cases of the inventory report are to support informed policy and decision making on viable climate change mitigation response measures for South Africa to achieve the envisioned transition to lower carbon economy and climate resilient society aspired by the National Development Plan (Vision 2030) and the National Climate Change Response Policy (2011).
The 9th National GHG Inventory Report can be accessed on this link for more information: https://www.dffe.gov.za/sites/default/files/legislations/nemaq_nggireportt_g52067gon5850.pdf
Enquiries:
Thobile Zulu-Molobi
Cell: +27 82 513 7154
E-mail: tmolobi@dffe.gov.za
Peter Mbelengwa
Cell: +27 82 611 8197
E-mail: pmbelengwa@dffe.gov.za
