In trying to keep global temperatures below 2 °C, the world needs to minimize carbon emissions mostly from the energy, transport and agricultural sectors and promote mitigation practices such as to increase plantations that can decrease carbon concentrations in the atmosphere (Rogelj et al., 2011).
Planting more trees in South Africa especially in the Western Cape province might be a challenge since the province is still not water secured after the water crisis that was experienced recently. it has also been reported that approximately 10 million hectares of land in South Africa has been invaded by invasive alien species that consume up to 50 l/day of water (Dzikiti et al., 2013).