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9. Recommendations and future directions Partnerships 9 Recommendations and Future Directions It is desirable that South Africa develops a robust and highly functional climate change science and technology platform to enable both the development and implementation of national action plans.This will not only enable South Africa to minimise the negative impacts of climate change on its economy and society, but also to take advantage of the various opportunities that exist for becoming a significant global player in the green economy, and more specifically a leading supplier of climate change knowledge, know-how, technologies and services. An examination of the national policy and strategy environment related to climate change provides two important insights.The first is that the there is no explicit policy environment directing the development of climate change science and technology and the related human capital. The second is that the macro-planning tools such as the NIPF and the New Growth Path have a high investment in both the potential of a green economy for contributing to overall South African development as well as the serious risk climate change presents to the country’s development trajectory. The decision at a national level to adopt new innovations depends on the benefits users expect from their adoption as well as on the expected costs related to the research investment and the mastery of the innovations. A crucial factor influencing and impacting on the diffusion of new technologies is the national technological capability to develop, imitate and adapt international technologies to national productive activities.The technological capabilities of national users and producers of complementary or alternative technologies influence the relative costs and benefits of the investment and adoption of new technologies. It is envisaged that under a business as usual scenario, the existing infrastructure and international obligations will support the diffusion of existing simple, mature and low-cost technologies rather than the diffusion of new renewable energy technologies. The current situation in South Africa therefore appears to be an obstacle in the diffusion of new environmentally friendly technologies as articulated by Bodas et al. (2010). In this light, the National Climate Change Response White Paper should consider a set of recommendations that may enable an environmentally friendly scenario. The recommendations relate to four domains, namely governance, planning tools, science and technology funding and instruments, and partnerships, as illustrated in Figure 8 above.The first relates to highly informed decision-making at policy, strategy and implementation levels. In this light it would be useful for theWhite Paper to consider a governance arrangement that made provision for the position of a chief scientific advisor to the Minister of Environmental Affairs. The Minister, with the advice of the chief scientific advisor should establish and constitute a scientific advisory council that consists of a wide range of expertise.This council could be chaired by the chief scientific advisor. Figure 8: Recommendations on science and technology related to climate change in South Africa Governance Planning Tools S&T Funding and Instruments 24PDF Image | The Green Machine 4000
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