Climate Facts: 60% Africans lack access to early disaster warning systems, says UN

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.

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