This document summarizes a presentation on South Africa's national climate change policies and commitments. It outlines South Africa's goals to peak and decline its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, develop national adaptation plans, and build climate resilience. It describes South Africa's long-term mitigation and adaptation scenarios, nationally determined contribution, and key policies like the National Climate Change Response White Paper. It also provides details on South Africa's emission reduction plans for the electricity sector and considerations around transitioning away from coal while balancing socioeconomic needs.

1. Breakout Group C: Information Session
on Article 6
Mandy Rambharos
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd
South Africa

2. National Climate Change Response
Policy objectives*
2*Guided by The Constitution, Bill of Rights, National Environmental Management Act, Millennium Declaration and UNFCCC
Make a fair contribution to stabilise
greenhouse gas (GHG)
concentrations in the atmosphere at
a level that avoids dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the
climate system within a timeframe
that enables sustainable economic,
social and environmental
development
Effectively manage inevitable
climate change impacts through
interventions that build and
sustain South Africa’s social,
economic and environmental
resilience and emergency
response capacity
Mitigation Adaptation

3. Summary of our NDC commitments
Mitigation Adaptation
Goal:
• Peak, plateau and decline (PPD)
in GHG emissions from 2020-
2030 ranging from 398-614 Mt
CO2eq
• Goal 1 - Develop a National Adaptation
Plan
• Goal 2- Include climate considerations
in policy frameworks
• Goal 3 - Build institutional capacity for
climate change response planning and
implementation
• Goal 4 - Develop an early warning,
vulnerability and adaptation monitoring
system
• Goal 5 - Develop a vulnerability
assessment and adaptation needs
framework
• Goal 6 - Communicate investments in
adaptation for education and
recognition

4. Mitigation process and achievements
so far
Long-Term
Mitigation
Scenarios (LTMS)
• Examine mitigation
potential
• LTMS  Sound scientific
analysis to draw up a
climate policy
SA’s Intended
Nationally-
Determined
Contribution
(NDC)
• Emissions 30-40% below
1990 levels by 2050:
•IPCC
•Peak, plateau and decline
(PPD)
National Climate
Change
Response White
Paper
(NCCRWP)
• Bottom-up process to
investigate the desired
emission reductions per
sector
Mitigation
Potential Analysis
Report
• Electricity sector was
separated into supply and
demand components
• 5 year carbon budgets
Legislation
• Using National
Environmental
Management: Air
Quality Act 2004
• In development:
Climate Change
Act
Nationalprocess
4

5. Adaptation process and achievements
so far
Long-Term
Adaptation Scenarios
(LTAS)
• Examine adaptation potential
• LTAS  Sound scientific
analysis to draw up a climate
policy
SA’s Intended
Nationally-
Determined
Contribution (NDC)
• Submitted to the UNFCC
• Build resilience and adaptive capacity to respond to climate
change risk and vulnerability; whilst providing guidance on the
integration of climate change responses into current and future
development objectives; through optimising policy, planning, and
implementation coherence of climate change adaptation actions
National Climate
Change Response
White Paper
(NCCRWP)
• Guides South Africa’s climate
change policy
National Adaptation
Strategy (NAS)
(2016) +
Implementation Plan
• To submit to the
UNFCCC
• Plan on its adaptation
strategic initiatives per
sector
• Guidance to decision
makers and
stakeholders
• Eskom’s Adaptation to
Climate Change
strategy and procedure
contributes to NAS 5

6. 66
South Africa’s commitment is to peak, plateau and
decline
6 Source: DEA

7. 7
The Integrated Resource Plan 2010 where CO2
emissions remain below 275 Mt p.a. from 2025
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
Mt CO2 p.a.
Existing coal
Committed
new coal
Additional
new coal
OCGT/CCGT
20302025202020152010
Long-term emission
target of 275 Mt p.a.
912 g/kWh 600 g/kWh821 g/kWh
-34%
Source: DoE presentation to Cabinet

8. Considerations
• Holistic approach
• Transitioning away from coal - phasing and timing
• Socio-Economic considerations
• Cost
• Stranding assets
• Article 6 mechanisms not a panacea but a tool to address some of the issues
• Cost of technology transition
• Regional approach
• Enabling private sector financing
• Blended financing
• Which means… the following is crucial to resolve
• “Account for”
• Reporting, Transparency framework
• Accounting RMP
• Type of NDC
• Who gets what? Contractual agreement? 8