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World on track for second- or third-warmest year ever, EU scientists say
According to new findings from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The update, published Tuesday and reported by Reuters, underscores a relentless warming trend even as governments struggle to advance climate action.
The assessment follows last month’s COP30 summit, where nations failed to agree on deeper emissions cuts despite mounting evidence of accelerating climate disruption.
Heat records fall again
Scientists stress that while natural variability affects temperatures from year to year, the long-term trend is unmistakable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels remain the dominant driver of global warming, Reuters reports.
Climate extremes across continents
This year’s heat has fuelled a string of disasters. Typhoon Kalmaegi killed more than 200 people in the Philippines, and Spain endured its most destructive wildfires in 30 years — blazes that researchers confirmed were made more likely by climate change, Reuters notes
Paris target slipping out of reach
Although the world has not formally breached the 1.5C warming limit — defined as a multi-decade average — the UN has warned that achieving the target is no longer realistic.
It has urged governments to accelerate emissions cuts to minimise how far the planet overshoots.
Sources: Reuters.
