Stakeholders

The principal focus is on stakeholders operating in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa.

Kruger to Canyons Stakeholder Workshops
30th April, 3rd and 4th May 2010

Understanding climatic changes and their possible impacts on society is essential in critical sectors in South Africa to improve strategic adaptation responses.

The key question has shifted from: 'Will we have to deal with the consequences of climate change' to 'How should we adapt to the changes which are most likely to occur'.

The Aims of the Stakeholder Workshops were to provide stakeholders with:

1. Access to policy-relevant climate information,
2. A better understanding of how to use the information and the limitations of the data, and
3. An ability to improve decisions will ultimately enhance the region's resilience to climate change.

From the workshop we obtained feedback from stakeholders on:

1. Need and usefulness of the climate change information presented
2. Website and data portal

Workshop presentations

• Projecting Future Climate Change. The use of downscaled Global Climate Models: deriving some key take home messages [94KB]
• Future Climate Change Projections. North-Eastern Region of South Africa [738KB]
• Natural environment impacts predicted with climate change [802KB]

A full feedback report will be available shortly.