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The province will host a climate change and sustainability dialogue.
“This will bring all the relevant stakeholders under one roof to emerge with a co-ordinated provincial response to climate change in the province. It is our mission to integrate ecosystem-based approaches into climate change adaptation, mitigation, disaster risk reduction and other strategic plans that need to be factored into localised programmes,” said Ntuli.
KwaZulu-Natal has experienced severe weather such as tornadoes that have damaged property and claimed lives, floods that have washed away infrastructure and destroyed business and, recently, snow and damaging winds.
After meetings with the coastal and port state of Maryland during the conference, the premier said his government had concretised discussions on exchange programmes in different fields including climate change, agriculture and nutrition.
“The government will lead our collaboration on the acquisition of weather prediction technology. The office of the premier will also visit the environmental scientific observatory stations that are based in the province that are run by the South African Environmental Observation Network and some of the weather stations run by the SA Weather Service.”
