SDDs in South Africa
UK Environment Secretary David Miliband and South African Environment Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus Van Schalkwyk signed a joint statement establishing the UK-South Africa High-Level Dialogue on Sustainable Development in March 2007.
The key themes in the UK-South Africa Sustainable Development Dialogue are:
- Climate Change and Energy for Sustainable Development
- Sustainable Consumption and Production
- Environmental enforcement
- Mainstreaming sustainable development
Projects being developed and implemented under wider UK – South Africa bilateral cooperation include:
On Natural Resource Management: Community based biodiversity projects, capacity building for research on conservation, ecosystem conservation planning, agricultural biodiversity, nature reserve management, and endangered species protection
On Mainstreaming Sustainable Development: Implementation of environmental enforcement, compliance and monitoring standards, fisheries policy, resource management and compliance, environmental justice
On Climate Change and Energy: CDMs, renewable energy and energy efficiency, industrial energy efficiency, transport energy policy, renewable-electricity generation, sustainable transport
On Sustainable Production and Consumption: sustainable tourism development
To read more on SDDs in South Africa, visit Defra's SDDs web site.