South Africa’s National Assembly Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has urged the heads of parliament around the world to take all necessary steps to deal with climate change. This, Mapisa-Nqakula said, can be done through oversight and other interventions with the constitutional powers of the institutions they lead. Mapisa-Nqakula is leading a multiparty delegation of senior members of the South African Parliament to the 144th Plenary Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), currently underway in Bali, Indonesia. The IPU is a global organisation of national parliaments that facilitates…

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