South Africa Wants Biodiversity Sector to Mirror Multi Billion Climate Drive, Minister Says

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South Africa wants to develop national biodiversity goals similar in scale to those it’s pursuing to transition its economy to the use of climate-friendly energy, its environment minister said.

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They include boosting the amount of land designated for conservation to allow the large-scale harvesting of meat from antelopes and other wild animals, increasing the production and marketing of products from indigenous plants and promoting leisure hunting and tourism. While South Africa is struggling to lessen its dependence on coal it has put in place a 1.5 trillion rand five-year plan to develop renewable energy, green hydrogen and electric vehicle industries and won $9.3 billion of climate finance from some of the world’s richest nations to do so. Currently its biodiversity plans consist mainly of small unconnected projects, Creecy said.

“In a country where you have very, very high unemployment, particularly in rural areas, if you are going to be able to put more land under some form of conservation and restore ecosystem services, you’re going to have to find viable forms of economic activity,” Creecy said.Significantly increasing the annual value of the game meat industry to 27.6 billion rand by 2036 from 4.6 billion rand in 2020.

 

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