Climate Facts: 13 million people die annually from climate change, says UN

The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can prove difficult to digest. TheCable’s quick climate facts will help demystify these concepts through easy-to-understand and straight-to-the-point explanations.

Here are some to keep at the tip of your fingers:

The United Nations (UN) said sustainable transition like renewable energy shift and manufacturing of electric vehicles will create 24 million jobs by 2030, more than the estimated 6 million that could be lost.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass.

The organisation said an average of 279 billion tons of ice were lost annually between 1993 and 2019, while Antarctica lost about 148 billion tons of ice per year.

The United Nations (UN) said climate change is the biggest health threat facing humanity.

UN said the impacts of climate change are already affecting health through air pollution, disease, extreme weather events, forced displacement, pressures on mental health, and increased hunger and poor nutrition in poorer countries.

It said about 13 million people die annually due to environmental factors like extreme weather events and changing weather patterns.