The year 2025 will be among the warmest on recordaccording to the report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on the state of the global climate published on Thursday. According to the WMO, this year will close more than a decade of unprecedented heat, writes TASR based on AFP and Reuters.
„The alarming streak of exceptional temperatures has continued into 2025, which is likely to be the second or third warmest year on record.” said the WMO in a report at the summit of heads of state ahead of next week’s Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Brazil.
The organization also warned that greenhouse gas concentrations have reached new record valueswhich means that the world will be even warmer in the future. These events together “clearly show that it will be virtually impossible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next few years without temporarily exceeding this target”, WMO Secretary General Celeste Saul said in a statement. According to Reuters, scientists have confirmed that the world will exceed this value around 2030.
In the 2015 Paris Agreement states have pledged to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius compared to the period before the industrial revolution. Saul emphasized that although the situation is bad, “the science shows just as clearly that it is still entirely possible and necessary to reduce temperatures back to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century”.
UN Secretary General António Guterres at Thursday’s summit sharply criticized countries for failing to limit warming to this levelcalling it “moral failure and fatal negligence.”
“Too many companies are making record profits from climate devastation while spending billions to lobby, lie to the public and block progress,” Guterres said in his speech. “Too many leaders remain captive to these entrenched interests.” declared the Secretary General, adding that countries have two options. “We can choose to lead—or be led to destruction,” said Guterres.
