Water Wheel March/April 2025: Climate Change And Wetlands

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Study investigates dynamics of greenhouse gas emissions from wetland systems In June 1992, South Africa joined more than 150 other countries in signing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and subsequently ratified it in August 1997. The following year, the country’s first national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory was prepared, using 1990 data. Since then, the inventory has been revised and updated eight times, with the most recent version – reflecting data for 2022 and trends since 2000 – submitted to the UNFCCC Secretariat in December 2024. At the same time, South Africa’s First Biennial Transparency Report was submitted in accordance with the Paris Agreement, which aims to keep the global average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

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