1.Discuss ten South African policies that support and enable green economy
2.In less than 500 words, discuss the concept Green Cities and Towns. Use practical examples and find at least five other published sources
3.What is a climate change
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1.Available policies supporting the country towards a green economy
South Africa prioritised green economy and initiated a number of enabling policies for the required signals in moving the country towards a green economy. The prioritisation is reflected in a number of policies including:
2009 framework response to the international economic crisis: the South Africangovernment urged for the development of incentives for investment in programmes geared at creating large number of 'green jobs', i.e. employment in industries and facilities that are designed to mitigate impacts to the environment and natural systems and the protection thereof
Medium Term Strategic Framework 2009- 2014
Government outcomes including Outcome 4 (of Decent employment through inclusive economic growth), Outcome 5 (A Skilled and capable workforce to support an inclusive growth), Outcome 6 (An efficient, competitive and responsive economic. infrastructure network), Outcome 7 (Vibrant, Equitable and Sustainable Rural Communities and Food Security for All), Outcome 10 (of environmental assets and natural resources that are valued, protected and continually enhanced)
New Growth Path: setting out critical markers for employment creation and growth and identifies where viable changes in the structure and that character of production can generate a more inclusive and greener economy over the medium to long run
IRP: efforts to meet the energy efficiency target and renewable energytarget
Industrial policy action plan: focusing on the manufacturing aspects of the green economy namely Green Industries and Industrial Energy Efficiency. To support broad-based industrialisation including more advanced manufacturing, encouraging cleaner, lower-energy technologies and green jobs
Ten-year innovation plan: indicating that South Africa is well positioned to lead research on the continent in terms of understanding and projecting changes to the physical system; the impact of these changes; and mitigation to limit their long-term effects
National Strategy for Sustainable Development and Action Plan
Green Economy Summit report.
2.In the end, this paper was able to define a green city as “a city that promotes energy efficiency and renewable energy in all its activities, extensively promotes green solutions, applies land compactness with mixed land use and social mix practices in its planning systems, and anchors its local development in the.
3.Climate change describes a change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time. ... Global climate change refers to the average long-term changes over the entire Earth.