Climate Change Act, 2024 (Act No. 22 of 2024)

Chapter 4 : National Adaptation to Impacts of Climate Change

19. Adaptation objectives

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(1) The Minister must, within one year of the coming into operation of this Act, determine by notice in the Gazette
(a) national adaptation objectives which will guide the Republic’s adaptation to climate change impacts, the development of resilience and sustainable development;
(b)indicators for measuring progress towards achieving the national adaptation objectives; and
(c) a date by which the national adaptation objectives must be incorporated into all relevant national planning instruments, policies and programmes which address, or are affected by, the actual and potential impacts of climate change.

 

(2) The Minister must, periodically, review and amend the national adaptation objectives contemplated in subsection (1)(a).