Climate Facts: Warming over land twice as high in Arctic, says IPCC

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:

• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says a shift to a circular economy can reduce the volume of plastics entering oceans by over 80 percent by 2040.
• UNEP added that the transition can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent.
• According to the United Nations, doubling global renewable energy capacity by 2030 could save the world’s economy between $1.2 and $4.2 trillion each year, largely due to a massive reduction in costs from pollution.
• Warming over land is larger and more than twice as high in the Arctic, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
• According to the IPCC, while benefits for air quality would come quickly, it could take 20 to 30 years to see global temperatures stabilise.