State of the Environment - South Africa: Climatic and Atmospheric Change: Linkages


National State of the Environment Report - South Africa
Main Issues:	Climate	Terrestrial	Water	Marine	Social	Economic	Political	Home page

This part of the report contains the following sub-sections:
Overview	Introduction	Driving forces	Pressure	State	Impact	Response
Outcome	Linkages	Data issues	Conclusions	References	Indicators	Links

Linkages

This chapter has linkages with some of the other sectors in the National State of the Environment Report. Use the tables below to find linkages with other sectors in this report.

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Table 1.6 Linkages from Climatic and Atmospheric to other sectors

Issues	Terrestrial	Freshwater	Coastal and Marine	Social	Economics	Policy
SO₂and NO_x	Impacts due to acid deposition			Health impacts	Costs of emission control, externalities of damage	Air quality legislation, trans boundary pollution
NO_x, VOC, ozone, photochemical smog	Direct damage			Health impacts	Costs of emission control, externalities of damage	Air quality legislation, trans boundary pollution
Greenhouse gases: CO₂, CH₄, N₂O, O₃	Climate change effects on productivity, biodiversity; direct CO₂impacts on plants,	Climate change effects on water yield. Sea level impacts on groundwater quality	Sea level rise, coral reefs	Direct heat impacts, malaria	Costs and benefits of climate change, adaptation risks and costs	UNFCCC
Particles (dust and smoke)	Relatively minor effects			Indoor and township air quality, visibility	Energy pricing, externalities	Air quality legislation

Table 1.7 Linkages from other sectors to Climatic and Atmospheric Change

Issues	Terrestrial	Freshwater	Coastal and Marine	Social	Economics	Policy
Emissions of CO₂, CH₄, N₂O SO₂, NO _x and particles	Land use on net CO₂, ruminant methane, fertiliser.	Wetlands produce methane	DMS	Population and consumption levels, attitudes to energy usage	Energy pricing	Energy, agriculture policy

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There is also information about Climatic and Atmospheric Change in the following reports:
Metropolitan reports:
	Cape Metropolitan Council (1998 edition)	Durban Pilot Study
	Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council (1999 edition)	Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council (1999 edition)