The year 2025 ranked 3rd among the hottest years ever recorded in the world, almost at the same level as the previous records of 2024 and 2023, the European Copernicus Observatory and the American Berkeley Earth Institute announced separately on Wednesday.
For the first time, the average global surface temperature over the last three years has exceeded the pre-industrial level (1850-1990) by more than 1.5°C, which is the most ambitious limit of the Paris agreement adopted a decade ago. Climatologists now consider it inevitable that this limit will be reached and exceeded in the long term, at the cost of more intense heatwaves and storms.
