Climate Facts: Over 60% of countries have nature-based climate action plans, says UN

The complexities of climate change and its associated jargons can be difficult to understand.

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 over 60 percent of countries have nature-based strategies in national climate action plans.
• About $16.8 billion – 21 percent of international climate finance goes to adaptation and resilience per year, according to the UN.
• Annual adaptation costs in developing countries are in the range of $70 billion, but could reach $300 billion by 2030.
• Without adaptive measures, the number of people who lack sufficient water for at least one month per year will soar from 3.6 billion today to more than 5 billion by 2050, the organisation said.
• The UN says solar-powered irrigation, weather alert systems, new crop varieties and other adaptive measures can help avoid a drop-off in global agricultural yields by up to 30 percent by 2050.