Climate 2025 was the third warmest year according to EU calculations
The past year 2025 was the third warmest since records began. According to EU calculations, for the first time three years were on average more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
14.01.2026, 04:43
SDA
"2025 was only slightly cooler than 2023, and 2024 remains the warmest year on record," explained Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the EU Copernicus program, in a briefing on the publication of the "Global Climate Highlights".
According to the report, 2025 was 0.01 degrees warmer than 2023 and 0.13 degrees cooler than 2024. The global average temperature was 14.97 degrees. The past eleven years were the eleven warmest ever.
The Paris climate target, with which the global community aims to avert the most devastating consequences of the climate crisis, is not yet officially considered to have been missed. If global warming continues at the current rate, the 1.5-degree limit will be exceeded towards the end of the decade - around ten years earlier than long assumed, according to Copernicus.
