South Africa is a party to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change ("UNFCCC"), and as a global
citizen committed to contributing its fair share to the global
greenhouse gases ("GHG") mitigation efforts in order to
keep temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius.
What to expect
In this regard, South Africa, at the Conference of the Parties
("COP") 15 in 2009, committed and is legally obliged to
develop and implement policies and measures that will curb its GHG
emissions by 34% by 2020 and 42% by 2025 below the Business As
Usual trajectory, subject to climate finance, capacity building,
technology development and transfer support from the developed
countries.
