Copernicus warns that the pace of climate change accelerates the global rise in temperatures

Europe warns that 2025 already equals 2023 as the second warmest year on record.

Climate change
New Copernicus data show that 2025 is on track to close as one of the warmest years ever observed. The European agency stresses that only a rapid reduction in emissions will be able to stop the trend. The European Copernicus observing programme has published its latest estimates and warns that the sustained rise in temperatures confirms an accelerating pace of climate change. The thermal anomaly from January to November 2025 was 0.60ºC above the 1991–2020 average, equivalent to 1.48ºC above the pre-industrial level, a margin that places the year practically tied with 2023 as the second warmest on record. For European experts, these data show the intensification of extreme events, from cyclones in Southeast Asia to warm anomalies in the Arctic.

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