 Climate change is happening. South Africa is likely to experience an increase in temperatures with dryer conditions in certain areas and possibly wetter conditions in other areas. The impact on rainfall is very uncertain across climate change futures, so it's important for South Africa to understand what the impact of that would be. What I'm looking at specifically in the research that I have done is what are the economic implications of climate change in South Africa and through that identifying what are the potential adaptation measures that South Africa can take. We've assessed three key impacts of climate change on the economy. The first was drought infrastructure, the second is water availability, and the third is the impact on dry land crop yields. We find that the largest impacts of climate change are through the impact on drought infrastructure because hotter dryer conditions require increased maintenance of roads. This requires larger shares of government budgets to be reallocated from potentially other more productive areas to now maintaining these roads. You also get a loss of productivity associated with that. The impact on dry land crop yields also a very large impact. In South Africa about 80% of agricultural production is dependent on dry land or drain feed agricultural cropping systems, looking at ways that South Africa can adapt to climate change. One of the most striking results that I came up or rather tools that I've came up is maintaining and possibly further extending the water management resource system as this will allow for water demands to continue to be met through water supplies that might now be reallocated in different parts of the country. Another option is that when we're thinking about infrastructural thinking broader in terms of what are the materials that we're going to use, what are the technologies that we're going to use and are these materials and technologies resilient to climate change. The key message for policy is that there are definitely steps that can be taken to make the economy more flexible to changes in climate and all that needs to be done is that we need to start acting on it now.