The City has made institutional and strategy changes to address vulnerability to threats like poor energy security and climate change impacts, and to reduce its high carbon footprint. Energy2040 informs the sustainable energy action plan into the future (City of Cape Town, 2015).

Displays low-carbon targets, policies and actions of leading South African Cities. (WWF, ICLEI, 2014)

Building on the 2008 Western Cape Climate Change Response Strategy and Action Plan, the updated Strategy is newly aligned with the National Climate Change Response Policy and geared to strategically direct and mainstream climate change actions and related issues throughout relevant Provincial transversal agendas. (Western Cape Provincial Government, 2014)

This 2013 low carbon strategy is for the central Cape Town city area and provides data and information as well as action plans to move the city towards a lower carbon trajectory. Key areas for change lie in electricity and transport efficiency. (Sustainable Energy Africa and Cape Town Partnership, 2013)

The Polokwane Municipality Energy Strategy sets out the municipality’s plan to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy within its area of jurisdiction (FutureWorks, SALGA and Urban Earth, 2013).

An informative booklet stating the case of the City’s action plan to tackle future energy use and a changing climate. (City of Cape Town, 2011)

The Eastern Cape Provincial Government’s policy responses to facilitate planned and co-ordinated approaches to both climate change mitigation and adaptation. (Dept. of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs, Eastern Cape Provincial Govt., 2011)

The strategy aims to reduce the man-made causes of climate change through the promotion of a more sustainable use of energy, while also identifying communities and ecosystems most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in order to minimise these impacts. (Hessequa Municipality)

This report sets out the Municipality’s short and medium term plan to combat climate change and promote sustainable energy solutions within its area of jurisdiction. The SPECCS also draws on Sol Plaatje’s vision of emerging as South Africa’s premier ‘Solar City,’ in line with the municipality’s ‘Declaration of Commitment to Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation’. (Sustainable Energy Africa for Sol Plaatje Municipality, 2009)