The new strategy will aim to capitalise on South Africa’s abundant wildlife, unique ecosystems and experience with conservation models that see wild areas harvested in a sustainable manner.
South Africa wants to develop national biodiversity goals similar in scale to those it’s pursuing to transition its economy to the use of climate-friendly energy, its environment minister said.
While South Africa is struggling to lessen its dependence on coal it has put in place a R1.5 trillion five-year plan to develop renewable energy, green hydrogen and electric vehicle industries and won $9.3 billion of climate finance from some of the world’s richest nations to do so. Currently its biodiversity plans consist mainly of small unconnected projects, Creecy said.
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