UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

In 2018 Cape Town experienced its most severe drought in over 100 years. It was set to be the first major city in the world to run out of water. It is now widely accepted that the severity and timing of the drought was impacted by climate change.

Cape Town eventually made it through the drought, and in an effort to ensure that we are more prepared for the next climate shock, researchers from the ACDI at UCT partnered with the Western Cape Water Caucus and The Environmental Monitoring Group in an exciting and innovative research project to better understand the lived realities of citizens, in order to develop context-specific adaptation responses to Climate Change.

I worked with them to produce a film that tells the story of their research project to ultimately expose it to more people around the world.

“We have to accept that the climate is changing and therefore we have to adapt to those changes.”
- Gina Ziervogel, PHD

”… we are arguing that you want Transformative Adaptation, that addresses underlying social inequalities that are creating these problems as much as climate change is.”
- Johan Enqvist, PHD