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The Centre for Environmental Rights, acting for Earthlife Africa Johannesburg, submitted comments on the draft Climate Change Impact Assessment (CCIA) and Palaeontological Impact Assessment (PIA) for the proposed Thabametsi coal-fired power station. The submission argues that the draft CCIA significantly underestimates greenhouse gas emissions, ignores the social cost of carbon, and fails to adequately address severe water scarcity risks in the Lephalale area. The authors contend that the project is not in the national interest due to existing excess energy capacity and that the most appropriate recommendation is a 'no go option' to avoid irreversible environmental and social harm.

This research paper reviews the current and planned climate change adaptation actions in Botswana. It identifies a significant gap between the country's high climate vulnerability—driven primarily by water scarcity—and the government's lack of priority, policy, and funding for adaptation. While Botswana possesses high adaptive capacity due to its economic development and governance, the report finds a dearth of national adaptation programs, with most activity occurring through regional initiatives.

This research paper introduces Targeting Agricultural Water Management Interventions (TAGMI), an online open-access decision support tool designed to identify the most appropriate agricultural water management (AWM) interventions for smallholder farming systems by assessing the likelihood of success for outscaling these interventions at a sub-national level.

This report examines the challenges of agricultural water use and productivity in the Limpopo River Basin, highlighting the vulnerability of small-scale farmers to rainfall variability and proposing policy improvements for water management and land tenure across the basin's four countries.