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The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can make it difficult to digest. TheCable’s quick climate facts will help demystify these concepts through easy-to-understand and straightforward explanations.

Here are some to keep at the tip of your fingers:

• The United Nations says 60 percent of people in Africa lack the coverage of early warning systems to predict floods, droughts and storms.
• According to UN, between 1970 and 2021, weather, climate, and water-related disaster caused 2,087,229 deaths.
• Ninety percent of the deaths were people living in developing countries.
• The direct damage costs of climate change to health is estimated to be between 2 to 4 billion dollars per year by 2030, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).
• The phase out of polluting energy systems and the promotion of public transportation could lower carbon emissions and ambient air pollution, which cause 7 million premature deaths per year, WHO said.