The planet is on track to log its second hottest year on record in 2025, tied with 2023 after a historic high in 2024, Europe’s global warming monitor said recently.
the data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service reaffirms that global temperatures are on course to exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels — the threshold considered safer in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
temperatures rose by 1.48C on average between January and November, or ‘currently tied with 2023 to be the second-warmest year on record’, according to the service’s monthly update. ‘The three-year average for 2023-2025 is on track to exceed 1.5C for the first time,’ Samantha Burgess, strategic lead for climate at Copernicus, said in a statement. ‘These milestones are not abstract – they reflect the accelerating pace of climate change and the only way to mitigate future rising temperatures is to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions,’ Burgess said.