Climate Facts: Transportation accounts for 20% of carbon emissions, says WHO

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 International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says continued global warming will intensify the water cycle, causing it to be more variable, changing monsoon precipitation and the severity of wet and dry events.
• The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) says 2023 was the second warmest year on record in the country — after 2021.
• The agency said the last nine years (2015-2023) were among the 10 warmest on record in the country, adding that 2023 was the warmest year in the southern part of the country since 1981.
• The World Health Organisation (WHO) says transportation accounts for about 20 per cent of global carbon emissions.