South Africa’s First Annual Climate Change Report - Climate Change Trends, Risks, Impacts, and Vulnerabilities
Year of publication
2016
Specific thematic area
Climate adaptation and/or mitigation
Sector of governance
Climate change
Type of human mobility
Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Cross-border, Internal
Type of environmental driver
Drought
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Slow-onset
Sub-region
Southern Africa
Region
Southern Africa
Macro-region
Africa
Relevant GCM objective
- GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse drivers
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available
“Destabilisation of communities by extreme drought conditions, for example, has been shown to drive human migration that can extend across national borders and result in profound political effects. Current impacts of extreme events are important opportunities for learning about the way in which future climate change can interact to exacerbate existing stress conditions, such as inadequate housing, inadequate service delivery and lack of maintenance of infrastructure.”