Data from the European climate observatory Copernicus confirms that global temperatures will exceed pre-industrial levels by 1.5ºC, the limit considered safe under the 2015 Paris Agreement
The year 2025 is expected to be the second hottest on record, tied with 2023, after the historic record of 2024, the European climate observatory Copernicus reported this Tuesday (9).
Data from the European observatory confirm that global temperatures will exceed pre-industrial levels by 1.5ºC, the limit considered safe by the
Temperatures rose, on average, 1.48ºC between January and November, or “currently tied with 2023 as the second hottest year on record”, according to the observatory’s monthly update.
“The three-year average for 2023-2025 is on track to exceed 1.5ºC for the first time,” Samantha Burgess, climate strategist at Copernicus, said in a statement.
“These milestones are not abstract, they reflect the accelerated pace of climate change and the only way to mitigate future temperature increases is to quickly reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” he added.
The secretary general of , warned in October that the world would not be able to keep warming below 1.5ºC in the coming years. Last month was the third hottest November on record, with an average of 1.54ºC above pre-industrial levels, according to Copernicus.
“The month was marked by several extreme weather events, including tropical cyclones in Southeast Asia, which caused extensive and catastrophic flooding and loss of life,” said the observatory.
As were hit by back-to-back typhoons that killed nearly 260 people in November, while Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia suffered deadly floods in December. Copernicus makes its measurements from billions of satellite readings and meteorological data, both on land and at sea, and its data goes back to 1940.
*With AFP
