The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) has welcomed the declaration of a state of national disaster in relation to the deadly flooding that has devastated the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces in particular in January. However, the advisory body has also called for a holistic reassessment of climate risks, noting that the floods coincided with other domestic climate-related disasters, including destructive wildfires in the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape, as well as the Knysna water crisis.
