Climate Resilience Symposium 2024 | Spotlight will be on climate change and SA's Just Transition

The elimination of structural and financial barriers to mobilise capital at scale for South Africa's Just Energy Transition is expected to come under the spotlight at the three- day climate symposium.
The event gets underway at the CSIR Convention Centre in Pretoria tomorrow, hosted by the National Treasury working with the Presidential Climate Commission and the World Bank.
The symposium will be held under the theme: Moving the Needle on Climate Change and just transition: The role of the National Treasury.

[OldScientist]

Quotes from the UN's IPCC AR6 WG1:
Flooding -
“the assessment of observed trends in the magnitude of runoff, streamflow, and flooding remains challenging, due to the spatial heterogeneity of the signal and to multiple drivers”
"Confidence about peak flow trends over past decades on a global scale is low."
"In summary there is low confidence in the human influence on the changes in high river flows on the global scale. Confidence is in general low in attributing changes in the probability or magnitude of flood events to human influence"
So in absence of detected trends, there won’t be much ability to attribute to humans. You can't say floods are caused by, driven by, or intensified by climate change. The evidence doesn’t support that.
Drought -
"There is low confidence that human influence has affected trends in meteorological droughts in most regions"
So no real evidence we changed the weather to cause periods of dryness.
Tropical Cyclones (TC) -
"Identifying past trends in TC remains a challenge...There is low confidence in most reported long-term (multidecadal to centennial) trends in TC frequency - or intensity based metrics"
So we can't spot a trend and therefore we can't really attribute that unknown trend to us humans.
Storminess - outside the tropics (ETCs) -
"There is overall low confidence is recent changes in the total number of ETCs over both hemispheres"
"Overall there is low confidence in past-century trends in the number and intensity of the strongest ETCs"
So we don't know what's happening with winter storms, so we can't say it's us that changed them.
Tornadoes, hail, lightning, thunderstorms, extreme winds -
"It is not straightforward to make a synthesizing view of trends in severe connective storms [thunderstorms] in different regions. In particular, observational trends in tornadoes, hail and lightning associated with severe connective storms are not robustly detected"
"the observed intensity of extreme winds is becoming less severe in lower to mid latitudes"
That's between 60°N and 60°S, so pretty much where everyone lives.