National climate change adaptation plans must empower local communities

Botswana is yet to finalise its climate change policy
Botswana is yet to finalise its climate change policy

Though climate change is a global problem, the impacts are felt locally. How each community responds to increasing climate hazards, changing rainfall patterns and other impacts of climate change may be different.

Take, for example, Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa. As Cape Town residents recently rallied to stave off so-called ‘Day Zero’ – when city officials would have turned off all the taps as a result of a multi-year drought - Johannesburg had the opposite problem: coping with flooding caused by heavy rains.

Environmental scientists have been telling us for decades that climate change will make weather patterns more variable and less predictable, and that it will make extreme weather, like floods and droughts, more frequent and more intense.

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