Branch: Climate Change and Air Quality Management Minister’s Stakeholder Workshop

1. Branch: Climate Change and Air Quality Management Minister’s Stakeholder Workshop Protea Hotel OR Tambo 01 August 2013

2. The Branch Structure

3. National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act (39) of 2004 - AQA • AQA presents a distinct shift from exclusively source-based air pollution control (Air Pollution Prevention Act of 1965) to holistic and integrated effects-based air quality management • Establishment of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (2009) – S9: • Defines air that is safe and not harmful to human health and well-being in line with Section 24 (b) of the Constitution of the Republic • Establishment of government-owned monitoring stations (84) according to S8 of the Act to monitor and report compliance to the national ambient air quality standards as contemplated in the 2007 National Framework for Air Quality Management

4. South African Air Quality Information System (SAAQIS) • Contemplated in the 2007 National Framework • SAAQIS was established in July 2007 and a partnership formed with the SAWS who is the custodian • Information Dissemination Tool for air quality publications and reporting • Phase 1: Ambient Air Quality Module • Where 72 government-owned monitoring stations are reporting and a total of 95 are reporting due to privately owned stations that are reporting (Private Owners: Eskom, Sasol and Richards Bay Clean Air Association) • Phase 2: National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory • System developed – currently training has been held • System is being populated as this is the pilot phase

5. National Air Quality Priority Areas – S18 • Declaration of Priority areas: • Ambient standards are being exceeded • Minister or MEC reasonably believes that such may be the case • Currently 3 areas have been declared: • Vaal Triangle Airshed Priority Area: AQMP gazetted and under implementation • Highveld Priority Area: AQMP gazetted and under implementation • Waterberg-Bojanala Priority Area: (precautionary declaration) and AQMP and Threat Assessment under development • Main Sources of Pollution in the Priority Areas • Industrial Emissions (various industrial complexes) – APPA consequences • Domestic Burning of Dirty Fuels in highly populated areas • Mining Operations • Vehicle Emissions

6. Emissions Management • Industrial Emissions: • S21 listed activities and associated minimum emission standards established in 2010 and amendment almost completed • Atmospheric Emissions Licensing – focused management of industrial pollution • S23 – declaration of Small Boilers as Controlled Emitters • Domestic Burning • Draft Strategy has been developed • Stakeholder consultation to be held by November 2013 • Vehicle Emissions • Draft Strategy has been developed and is being finalised • Stakeholder consultation has been held • Mining Dust • Regulations for the control of dust: developed • Consultation completed and regulations being finalised

7. SO2 national annual averaged PM10 national annual averaged

8. SO2, PM10 NAAQS NAQI

9. NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSE POLICY • Overview of approach to implementation • Key priorities

10. Mobilise resources Build science platform Raise Awareness Mobilise resources Build science platform Raise Awareness

11. Towards a national response to climate change • Extensive work is underway, across government and other organisations. Key issue is to organise, achieve coherence, monitor impact and move towards a collective national response • Towards a national response: • Adaptation: Programmes need to use a common set of climate scenarios, and likely impact scenarios, and build in systems for scaling up, and for monitoring impact & outcome • Mitigation: Programmes need to contribute to a single agreed set of desired emission reduction outcomes (DEROs); and contribute to single system for measuring outcome (emission reductions) • Monitoring and evaluation: coherent system to monitor outcome of collective response • A finance and technology platform • Skills building programme

12. Adaptation

13. Mitigation

14. Monitoring and reporting

15. CC response flagships

16. Approach to Implementation Coordination by Department of Environmental Affairs Implementation of NCCRP Technical Working Group on Mitigation Technical Working Group on Adaptation Technical Working Group on Monitoring & Evaluation Task Teams AFOLU Transport Energy Industry Waste

17. Communications events this year • National Air Quality Management Lekgotla: focusing on air quality governance • National Climate Services Workshop: The South African Weather Service in partnership with DEA and WMO: 19 - 22 August 2013, Pretoria. Exploratory workshop focussing on how to consolidate climate change information and services. • IPCC SREX National Outreach Event, South Africa: The DEA, IPCC, SAWS, NDMC, Academia, will host the IPCC SREX National Outreach Event, October 2013. Focuses on how integrating expertise in climate science, disaster risk management, and adaptation can inform discussions on reducing and managing risks of extreme events • Launch of the climate change response toolkit and guide that aims to support the integration of climate change response into municipal development planning tools such as IDP and municipal sector plan • Roundtable on mitigation: focussing on approach to the development of the desired emission reduction outcomes and measures to achieve DEROs

18. Thank You