Climate Facts: Over 150 environment disasters occurred globally in 2024, says WMO

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 Environment Programme (UNEP) says about 80 percent of the 200 million tonnes of reactive nitrogen is lost to the environment annually.
• The organisation said emissions benefit nitrogen-tolerant species at the expense of more sensitive ones.
• A new report by the World Meterological Organisation (WMO) says more than 150 unprecedented climate disasters hit the world in 2024.
• WMO said 2024 saw a spate of destruction from extreme weather, with more than 800,000 people displaced — the highest annual record since 2008.
• The United Nations (UN) says current national climate plans (NDCs) fall miles short of what is required to stop global warming from crippling every economy and wrecking billions of lives and livelihoods across every country.