Climate Facts: Effective climate policies can create 12m jobs by 2035, says ILO

The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can prove 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:

• The International Labour Organization (ILO) says a well-designed climate policies can create 12 million green job opportunities by the year 2035.

• The International Energy Agency (IEA) says clean energy employment exceeded fossil fuel employment for the first time in 2021.

• The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says air pollution was the second leading risk factor for death among children under 5 years in 2021 — after malnutrition.

• The organisation said more than 700,000 deaths in children under 5 years in 2021 were linked to air pollution. The figure represents 15 per cent of all global deaths in children under five, including over 570,000 neonatal mortality.