2025 was the third warmest year ever recorded on the planet, approaching the level of previous records, 2024 and 2023, the European Copernicus Observatory and the American Berkeley Earth Institute announced separately today.
For the first time, the average temperature on the Earth's surface in the last three years exceeded the level of the pre-industrial era (1850-1900) by more than 1,5° Celsius, which was the most ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement, adopted a decade ago, to limit the increase in global temperature.
Climatologists now consider it inevitable that this limit will be exceeded over time, at the cost of increasingly frequent and long-lasting heat waves and more severe, destructive, and deadly extreme events.
