. Ensure an effective response to climate change impacts by building adaptive capacity, socio-economic resilience and emergency response capacity by 2015/16; and completing Phase 1 of the development of the national integrated climate change adaptation strategy for South Africa by 2015/16. . Contribute to the global effort to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere by making recommendations on aligning a climate change sectoral policies and plans by 2015/15; and finalising three (3) sector mitigation plans by 2015/16. . Enable South Africa to meet its national and international obligations by developing a national monitoring and evaluation system for climate change by 2015/16. . Ensure the continuous improvement of ambient air quality throughout the country by implementing air quality management plans in priority area hotspots and providing legislative support and leadership to other spheres performing air quality management functions over the medium term period. . Reduce the national air quality indicator from 1.150 in 2011/12 to 1.130 in 2015/16 through the national implementation of the regulatory framework of the Air Quality Act of 2004 over the medium term; and growing and maintaining the number of monitoring stations in the country that report to the South African air quality information system from 60 in 2011/12 to 80 in 2015/16.