SA’s first climate change bill must have the power to tackle non-compliance in greenhouse gas emissions

Earlier this year, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its Sixth Assessment Report, also known as AR6. The Guardian newspaper called AR6 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC's) “starkest warning yet” while UN Secretary-General, António Guterres described it as a “code red for humanity.”The AR6 warned that unless substantial and immediate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are made, the goals agreed by the international community under the 2015 Paris Agreement, which SA has ratified, would not be reached.