10 January 2025
The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this. The European Copernicus climate service said on Friday that 2024 was the first calendar year to pass the 1.5C threshold, as well as being the world's hottest year on record. This does not mean the international 1.5C target has been broken, because that refers to a long-term average over decades. But does bring us nearer to doing so, as fossil fuel emissions continue to heat the atmosphere.
