African Regional Conference on the Environment
28 Nov - 30 Nov 2018
Session information
Session 3 Climate change: impacts on Africa, opportunities and challenges
Thursday 29 November (1215 - 1330)
Committee(s)
African Regional Forum
(Lead)
Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law Section (SEERIL)
(Lead)
Environment, Health and Safety Law Committee
(Lead)
Description
As part of their Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement, several African countries are looking to advance their legal systems as a means of implementing nationally determined adaptation and mitigation responses. Africa has also been identified as one of the continents that is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, which underscores the imperative to adapt to more intense and frequent droughts, heat stresses, tropical cyclones and flooding, as well as related impacts on food security, access to safe drinking water and migration. This places an unprecedented challenge on regulators to mainstream adaptation considerations and learnings from best practice within legal regimes and policies, whilst simultaneously advancing a development agenda. This session discusses how adaptation considerations can be incorporated into the legal system, particularly as they relate to climate variability, droughts, floods and food security.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Professor Javier De Cendra | University Francisco de Vitoria , Madrid, Spain; Vice Chair, Environment, Health and Safety Law Committee |
Speakers
| Andrea Ajibade | University of Lagos, London, England |
| Guy Midgley | Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa |
| Mansoor Parker | ENS, Sandton, South Africa |
| Belynda Petrie | OneWorld Sustainable Investments, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Garyn Rapson | Webber Wentzel, Johannesburg, South Africa |