South Africa

Climate variability and weather extremes are already having profoundly negative effects on South Africa’s water quality and availability, with significant impacts on the economy, jobs and livelihood

This project and its landscape models will drive a transformational change in South Africa’s land use sector. Effective restoration at scale helps achieve South Africa’s inclusive green economy (IGE, including reducing inequalities) and environmental targets, particularly the NDC, but also its NAP, NBSAP, South Africa’s Land Degradation Neutrality Target, etc.

Through dissemination activities, project outcomes and lessons learned can also serve as blueprints for transformation for South African areas with the on-the-ground implementation focus of the project, as well as internationally for similarly degraded savannah, thicket and grassland landscapes. As such, this project will make meaningful contributions beyond the scope – to the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, the new strategic plan of the CBD, and implementation initiatives such as the UN Decade of Restoration, the Bonn Challenge and the AFR100 initiative.