Key Climate Indicators & Emerging Trends
- 2024 was the warmest year on record, surpassing 1.5 °C warming for the first time since the Paris Agreement baseline National Wildlife Federation+1Wikipedia+1.
- The first quarter of 2025 ranks as the second-warmest on record, extending a stretch of unprecedented warmth that began mid‑2023 Carbon Brief.
- May 2025 was the second hottest May globally, averaging 0.63 °C above the 1991‑2020 baseline and 1.4 °C above pre‑industrial levels Climate Fact Checks.
- Scientists warn the world has only two years left before depleting its remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5 °C (≈ 80 billion tonnes CO₂), at current emission trajectories The Guardian+1The Australian+1.
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