Lesotho

The National Climate Change Policy establishes 22 strategies in order to ensure that stakeholders address climate change impacts and their causes through the identification, mainstreaming and implementation of adaptation and mitigation measures, while promoting sustainable development.Its main objectives are 1) promote climate-resilient, social, economic and environmental ...

This plan sets the government's development vision over the period 2012-2017 and sets specific actions. Vulnerability to climate change is one of the key challenges identified in the document (2.2.3). Climate adaptation is one part of the strategic objective defined, alongside reversing environmental degradation (5.5).

This Policy mainly aims at reducing poverty, create jobs and improve conditions in the country by securing tree cover on lands, and improving the legal and administrative framework related tot he sector. Carbon sequestration is a notable objective of the policy.

This Act establishes a legal framework related to the protection and management of environmental resources. Art. 3 (i) specifies that the authorities in charge should prevent any interference with the climate and take compensatory measures for such interferences.

The Vision 2020's ambition is to to make Lesotho a stable, peaceful, developed, richer and environmentally-friendly democracy by 2020. It notably promotes the production and use of renewable energy, and better land use management (against desertification, protection of forests and mountain ecosystems).