Agb Voorsitter, agb Minister van Omgewingsake, Bosbeheer en Visserye, agb lede van die NRVP, mede-burgers van Suid- Afrika, ons land, Suid-Afrika, is gesen met natuurlike hulpbronne. Dit is ons almal se verantwoordelikheid om ons omgewing te beskerm. Die regering doen nie genoeg om die boodskap van omgewingsbewaring deur middel van volgehoue projekte en aksieplanne deur te voer nie. Die bewaring van ons planeet is in die belang van die volgende generasie, om te verseker dat hulle ook 'n omgewing kan geniet wat vry van besoedeling is.
English:
The effect of climate change is becoming more evident with frequent occurrences of drought, flooding and diseases. Over the past two decades or so, the country has experienced a number of adverse
climate hazards. The most serious ones have been seasonal drought, intense rainfall and flooding.
Drought and floods have increased and intensified over the past two or three decades. Climate change has adversely impacted on food and water security, water quality, energy and sustainable livelihoods of the most rural communities.
The state must invest in the maintenance of our wetlands, most of which are critically endangered. As a country, we must invest in the protection of our biodiversity in a way that also improves social well-being. We must rethink a future that we are going to bestow on our children - free from carbon emissions, full of sustainable development ideas.
Having said that, the African Climate Reality Project has done an assessment of all political parties' 2019 manifestos against a set of 69 criteria, focusing on environment- and climate-friendly measures.
The EFF has trumped all political parties in terms of its environment and climate change policies. The EFF has been labelled a leader, beating the ANC, DA, Good, UDM, Cope, IFP and the FFP. Given
the effects that climate change will have on our environment, the EFF, in its 2019 election manifesto, made the following commitments to the people of South Africa.
An EFF government will adopt a civil society-driven initiative of
1 million climate jobs, as a government programme. Through this initiative, the EFF will create 1 million jobs aimed at transitioning from coal-based energy sources to renewable energy. [Interjections.]
We must find clean technologies for coal because we have enough coal and if we continue to use it with the current technologies, it will cause more harm. And equally, we cannot afford not to use it.