environmentally and socially damaging practices to those of a cleaner, restorative economy, something that is entrenched as a fundamental bill of rights in our Constitution.
The discourse on just transition cannot mainly be confined to trade unions and non profit organisations and academic institutions, as inappropriately assumed by some among us. In fact, our Government is at the centre of the debate on the question of just transition as it deals with the overall health, wellbeing and welfare of our people, which everywhere is the prerogative of government regulation, we are doing so in this case by the presentation of the Carbon Tax Bill to this House which the ANC support and looks like all other parties will support it, excluding DA. Thank you.
Deputy Speaker, the century-long Carbon Tax Bill aims at managing the inevitable climate change impact through interventions that build and sustain South Africa's social, economic and environmental resilience and emergency response capacity.