2024 confirmed as first year above 1.5 °C
10 January 2025·Environment & climate·Global·
10 January 2025Date
Environment & climateCategory
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- 10 January 2025
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- Environment & climate
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- Global
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- Contemporary
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Climate agencies including the EU's Copernicus service confirmed 2024 as the warmest year in the instrumental record and the first full calendar year more than 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial baseline — the threshold central to the Paris Agreement — underlining the accelerating pace of global warming.
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