Independent experts nominated by country party

I am responsible for achieving Conservation SA policy targets and developing linkages that will support the restoration and conservation of healthy ecosystems through South African legislation and government programmes and fiscal instruments. This approach includes a focus on ecosystem based approaches to adaptation and developing a green economy with a focus on water and land use management within rural areas of SA. The work includes supporting the mainstreaming of climate change into district, provincial and national level policy. In 2012-2013 I worked with the Department of Environment and SA National Biodiversity Institute in project managing the development of South Africa’s Long Term Adaptation Scenarios. I have been involved in developing a district level climate response strategy in Alfred Nzo District and supporting the development of a Small Grants Facility for adaptation in the Northern Cape. In 2016-7 worked on the development of a National Adaptation Strategy and Plan for South Africa with the Department of Environmental Affairs and SANBI.