The South African Climate Action Network (SACAN) is a network of individuals and organisations working on or interested in climate change-related issues. Its main aims are to facilitate local civil society organisations' participation in responding to climate change at national, regional and international levels, and to promote government, industry and individual action to limit human-induced climate change and reduce vulnerability to climate impacts.

Objectives of SACAN:

To coordinate information exchange on national, regional and international climate policies and issues, amongst civil society organisations and with other interested institutions;

To formulate national, regional and international policy options and position papers on climate related issues;

To undertake further collaborative action to promote effective non-governmental organisations involvement in efforts to avert the threat of global warning; and

To initiate civil society capacity building and public awareness raising to promote government and individual action, to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels and develop capacity to adapt to climate change.

SACAN aims to have a positive interaction with the South African government at national, provincial and local levels. SACAN members have made constructive input to various policy documents, and the network is represented on the National Climate Change Committee (NCCC). For more information see 'National Advocacy'.



SACAN is a national node of the Climate Action Network (CAN) international, a worldwide network of over 365 Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs). SACAN includes both organisational and individual members that subscribe the CAN Charter. SACAN also recently helped to establish the Southern African Regional Climate Action Network (SARCAN) and is currently serving as the regional node.