The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can make it difficult to digest. TheCable’s climate quick facts will help to demystify these climate concepts through easy-to-understand and straight-to-the-point explanations.
Here are some to keep at the tip of your fingers:
- From 1990 to 2019, research on Africa received just 3.8 percent of climate-related research funding globally. This, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has reduced adaptive capacity in the continent.
- The United Nations projects that to keep temperatures below 2°C, emissions must drop by 2.7 percent every year from 2020 to 2030.
- Over 90 percent of people breathe unhealthy levels of air pollution resulting from burning fossil fuels driving climate change, according to the UN.
- Every year, environmental factors take the lives of around 13 million people, says the UN.
- The UN says over 17 percent of food is wasted, and up to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are associated with food that is not consumed.
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