SA is working hard behind the scenes in fight against climate change

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Although it has taken much too long to seriously address climate change, South Africa will be able to take some of the credit if the world takes effective steps to limit climate change at the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference (COP21) in Paris from 30 November to 11 December.

So said Professor Bob Scholes, Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, during a talk at Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown in Johannesburg.

South Africa has very good reason to promote action against climate change. We are an especially climate-vulnerable country, as Scholes pointed out: thanks to a climate anomaly, we get both drier and hotter as the global average temperature rises (for the rest of the world, the experience is hotter and moister).