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Facing climate change : building South Africa's strategy / Stefan Raubenheimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Environmental aspects--South Africa.
- Climatic changes.
- Global warming--South Africa.
- Global warming.
- Green movement--South Africa.
- Green movement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (170 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town : idasa, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When it comes to Climate Change the gap between what we are doing and what we need to do is vast. Developing a plan to get us from where we are to where we need to be is now one of the most important tasks of modern society. In this, South Africa was an early leader, and it approached the question in a remarkable way. The South African Long-Term Mitigation Scenarios (LTMS) is an internationally celebrated example of how people can come together to work with the evidence to develop the questions of the day. What was remarkable was not only the scientific rigour adopted, but the way in which leaders worked together to reach a broad consensus. Their vision, and the response of the South African government, was groundbreaking and extraordinarily ambitious. The LTMS has quietly reshaped the South African landscape. This book is the story of the people and the process by which they took up the challenge and produced these Long-Term Mitigation Scenarios.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Acronyms
- Chapter 1 - Beginnings
- Climate Change and South Africa
- 2005: a quick tour through Climate Science … then
- International co-operation
- South Africa: important or insignificant?
- Breaking the impasse
- An idea
- Context
- The 'what if' questions
- First steps
- Chapter 2 - Method
- The case for Scenarios
- Scenario fundamentals
- 'Context' Scenarios in the LTMS
- The effectiveness of Scenarios
- The assessment approach of the LTMS
- Achieving social accountability through stakeholders
- Facilitation in the LTMS
- Consensus seeking
- A word on social accountability
- Finally
- Chapter 3 - Building the Scenarios
- Chronology of the LTMS study at Scenario Building Team (SBT) level
- Setting up the SBT
- The issue of facilitators and process administrators
- Technical content
- Communication
- Wrapping up the preparations
- SBT 1 kicks off
- Research groups
- Rules of the game
- Status of work
- Definition of main terms
- Background to the Scenarios: the South African context
- Next steps
- Chapter 4 - The picture emerges
- SBT 2 and 3
- The base year, and the horizon year
- Building Scenario 5
- Energy emissions: the big job in Scenario A
- SBT 3 and 4
- Exploring the actions
- Nuclear versus renewables
- Chapter 5 - Getting there
- Building wedges of emissions reductions
- The last gap
- The day of the 'fairy godmother' technologies
- SBT 5
- A remarkable consensus
- Future contextual 'Scenarios': the external environment
- The final draft package
- Economy-wide modelling
- The last Working Group
- SBT 6: The fi nal SBT meeting
- Planning the next phase
- Adieu SBT?
- Chapter 6 - Response, reaction
- The four Round Tables
- Government
- Civil society
- Labour
- Business.
- A special moment
- The Cabinet response
- The international stage
- The World Bank review and other responses
- On balance
- Some criticisms
- Finally, Copenhagen
- Chapter 7 - From Scenarios to plans
- The LTMS and the policy process
- Planning for low carbon
- Could South Africa do it?
- Chapter 8 - Conclusion
- Other country processes
- An LTAS?
- Some personal reflections
- Annexure 1 - Some climate facts pertinent to South Africa
- Annexure 2 - The terms of reference for the LTMS
- Annexure 3 - Scenario examples
- Annexure 4 - Methodology for Scenario building
- Annexure 5 - Assessment examples
- Annexure 6 - Assessment methodology
- Annexure 7 - Management in the LTMS
- Annexure 8 - Team members identified for SBT 1
- Annexure 9 - A list of 'fairy godmother' technologies
- Annexure 10 - Media Statement by Marthinus Van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Cape Town, 28 July 2008
- Annexure 11 - LTMS Cabinet media release presentation
- Author biography
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- "Bound and printed by Unity Press, Cape Town".
- "This book was made possible by funding from ANSA-Africa and the World Bank Institute".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-00477-1
- 9786613004772
- 1-920409-54-8
- 1-920409-53-X
- OCLC:
- 715154168
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