1. Local Government Climate Change Support Program 2016
Draft Ehlanzeni DM Climate Change Response Plan

2. Presentation Contents
Climate change plan development
Activities to date
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Results
Draft Climate Change Response Actions

3. Climate Change Plan Development
Developed through the Local Government Climate Change Support Program (LGCCS)
First Step - Conducting a climate change vulnerability assessment
Second Step - Developing climate change responses
Draft plan in place for review

4. Progress to date Toolkit development
District level vulnerability assessments 3 May 2016
Draft municipal Climate Change Response Plans

5. Agriculture

6. Priority Indicators: Agriculture
Theme
Indicator Title
Agriculture
Change in grain (maize, wheat & barley) production
Change in other crop production areas
Increased risks to livestock
Loss of grasslands

7. Responses: Agriculture
Sub-Project: Change in grain (maize, wheat & barley) production
Research & improve understanding of CC impacts on grain production
Research & improve understanding of grain production
Conduct research on alternative agricultural production
Promote knowledge generation, sharing & stakeholder participation
Implement evidence based monitoring initiatives
Identify climate resilient land-uses

8. Responses: Agriculture
Sub-Project: Change in other crop production areas
Research & improve understanding of CC impacts on crop production
Conduct research on alternative agricultural production
Promote knowledge generation, sharing & stakeholder participation
Implement evidence based monitoring initiatives
Identify climate resilient land-uses

9. Responses: Agriculture
Sub-Project: Increased risks to livestock
Commission research and improve understanding of CC impacts livestock
Generate and share scientific, social and indigenous knowledge
Promote knowledge generation, sharing & stakeholder participation
Strengthen management plans, to enable continuous monitoring of water and herbage availability for livestock
Develop a framework that will assist farmers with adjusting to reduced rainfall
Educate farmers on the advantages associated with early detection of diseases in animals

10. Responses: Agriculture
Sub-Project: Loss of grassland
Research and improve understanding of CC impacts on biodiversity
Research and improve understanding of ecosystems services
Promote knowledge generation, sharing & stakeholder participation
Strengthen management plans of grasslands
Implement evidence based monitoring initiatives
Incorporate biodiversity management into planning systems for other sectors

11. Biodiversity and Environment

12. Priority Indicators: Agriculture
Theme
Indicator Title
Biodiversity and Environment
Increased heat stress

13. Responses: Biodiversity and Environment
Sub-Project: Increased heat stress
Identify communities that have the least capacity to respond to increased temperatures
Conduct awareness campaigns on the health risks of high temperatures
Commission a reliable early warning system to alert communities and industries
Introduce, enhance and integrate surveillance systems to monitor changes in climate and climate-related diseases.
Develop a health data-capturing system that records data both at spatial and temporal scales

14. Human Settlements

15. Priority Indicators: Human Settlement
Theme
Indicator Title
Human Settlement
Increased occupational health problems

16. Responses: Human Settlement
Sub-Project: Increased occupational health problems
Conduct CC impact assessment on occupational health
Identify and profile groups that are most vulnerable to heat stress and dehydration
Conduct awareness campaigns on the health risks of high temperatures in the workplace
Commission a reliable early warning system that will alert industries and businesses on extreme weather events

17. Responses: Human Settlement
Sub-Project: Increased isolation of rural communities
Identify alternative access routes to rural communities
Identify roads at risk of flooding and erosion and prioritise those for upgrading and maintenance
Identify local responses that will reduce isolation of rural communities
Build CC resilient road infrastructure that serves as a link for rural areas
Implement flooding drainage systems that will reduce impacts on rural roads
Develop economic nodes and improved service provision in rural areas to improve connectivity

18. Water

19. Priority Indicators: Water
Theme
Indicator Title
Water
Decreased quality of drinking water
Decrease water quality in ecosystem

20. Responses: Water Sub-Project: Decreased quality of drinking water
Research and improve understanding of CC impacts on water quality
Adopt and enforce simple, innovative, adaptive engineering approaches to wastewater treatment
Incorporate projected CC impacts into the planning of municipal water supply
Identify and implement innovative groundwater monitoring initiatives
Prioritise and allocate resources to adaptation interventions that will minimise the pollution of drinking water

21. Responses: Water Sub-Project: Decreased water quality in ecosystem
Research and improve understanding of CC impacts on water quality and availability
Conduct a CC impact assessment on health risks to aquatic systems
Adopt and enforce simple, innovative, adaptive engineering approaches wastewater treatment initiatives
Strengthen management plans of wastewater treatment
Identify and implement wastewater monitoring initiatives
Protect and rehabilitate aquatic systems so that they can provide flow attenuation and ecosystem goods and services

22. Local Government Climate Change Support Program 2016
Draft Ehlanzeni DM Climate Change Response Plan