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The Climate Change Bill [B9- 2022] (the “Bill”) was formally introduced to Parliament on 18 February 2022 by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (“DFFE”). This comes more than three years after an earlier version of the Bill was first published for public comment on 8 June 2018. The Bill is currently under consideration by the National Assembly and members of the public had until 27 May 2022 to submit any comments on the Bill to the Portfolio Committee on Environment, Forestry and Fisheries. If the Bill becomes law, it will form the first legal framework in South Africa to respond to the impacts of climate change. Given the increase in the frequency and severity of droughts and floods across the country and the fact that President Ramaphosa has been invited to attend the G7 Summit in Germany in June 2022 where climate change is one of the priority issues for discussion, the introduction of the Bill could not be more timeous.

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