Has the 1.5°C climate target set in the Paris Agreement been missed?

In the last 25 months, only in four months did the average temperature not exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Does this mean that the Paris Agreement on climate has failed?
In view of the numerous heatwaves that have ravaged large areas of Europe during the first weeks of summer, the conclusions of the July climate bulletin published by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), will not come as a surprise. Last month was the fourth warmest July on record in Europe, with average temperatures reaching 21.12°C, 1.30°C above the 1991-2020 average for July.

“There were some regional contrasts, as is often the case in Europe,” explains Julien Nicolas, a senior scientist at Copernicus. The month started extremely hot in most of Europe, especially in the western part. “As the month progressed, temperatures cooled and conditions became wetter in western and central Europe.”
The anomalies that stood out in July were the well above average temperatures recorded in Scandinavia, where they reached 30°C for several weeks. “That’s quite significant, and it’s not the length of time we would expect it to persist in these latitudes.” Meanwhile, in Turkey, the temperature reached 50°C.

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