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 global temperatures could rise by 2.6-3.1°C over the course of the century if countries fail to achieve their new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
- Global greenhouse gas emissions reached a record high of 57.1 GtCO2e in 2023, according to UNEP.
- The organisation said the new record amounted to a 0.13 percent increase from 2022 emission levels. This, it said, was contributed by all sources of GHGs, except land use, land-use change and forestry CO2.
- A new report by Nature says the world may experience prolonged dry extremes in many regions in the coming years.
- The study revealed that the increase in the longest annual dry spell will be 42–44 percent greater on average than ‘mid-range’ or ‘high-end’ future — which could be 10 days longer than expected.
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