‘Earth heading for 1.5°C warming, but China ahead of its climate target’
Globally, 2024 was the warmest year on record and the first with an average temperature exceeding 1.5°C above the pre‑industrial level. The last ten years have been the warmest ten years on record /climate.copernicus.eu
Planet Earth is heading for more than 1.5 degrees of global warming. A disturbing new calculation shows that the rate of warming is now twice as fast as it was at the end of the 20th century.
The climate goal the world set itself ten years ago in Paris was to limit global warming to “well below
