2025 Recorded as Third Warmest Year on Record

2025 has been recorded as the third warmest year globally, closely approaching the record levels of 2024 and 2023, according to separate announcements from the European Copernicus Observatory and the American Berkeley Earth Institute. For the first time, the average global temperature over the past three years has exceeded 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900), surpassing the ambitious goal set by the Paris Agreement a decade ago to limit global warming. Climate scientists now consider it inevitable that this threshold will be exceeded consistently, leading to more frequent and prolonged heatwaves, as well as more intense, destructive, and deadly extreme weather events. The Paris Agreement aimed to limit the temperature increase to this level in order to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change. The continued rise in temperature will further worsen environmental conditions and threaten human life and ecosystems, scientists emphasize. The need for immediate and effective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever. The announcement from the scientific centers serves as another warning about the climate crisis and the need for international cooperation and coordinated efforts to address it. Exceeding the 1.5°C threshold marks a critical turning point in the course of climate change and requires immediate and radical policy and behavioral changes.