The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment is coordinating and facilitating the climate change response reporting with the Mpumalanga province and its municipalities on mitigation, adaptation and research projects implemented in Mpumalanga by key stakeholders through the development and operationalisation of the Mpumalanga Climate Change Information System.
The Mpumalanga CCIS aims to inform climate change reporting domestically and internationally:
Periodic reporting on climate change projects to inform the Medium-Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) on Priority 5 under climate change response.
Progress in the implementation of National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Strategic Interventions recognized through the implementation of Mpumalanga Provincial, Sectoral and Municipal Climate Change Plans/Strategies/Implementation plans
Facilitate South Africa’s fulfillment of its international reporting commitments under:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (South Africa’s reporting on Biennial Update Report and the National Communication Reports, Nationally Determined Contribution and soon on adaptation communication and Biennial Transparency reporting)
Sustainable Development Goals (in particular Goal 13): Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Sendai framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Leveraging and optimizing synergies with local specific reporting requirements domestically and internationally: National Treasury Circular 88, DFFE IDP Analysis, SALGA, C40 and ICLEI etc
The CCIS is part of the national effort to track South Africa's overall transition to a low carbon and climate resilient economy by offering a series of decision support tools to inform policy and decision-making.
The system monitors and evaluates climate change drivers, events, links to national objectives, targets and strategies in respect of climate change mitigation and adaptation monitoring and assessment of actions taken by stakeholders.