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The World Meteorological Organization reported that 2025 will rank as the second or third hottest year ever recorded in 176 years of record keeping, with global temperatures between January and August measuring 1.42 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.</span

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The World Meteorological Organization reported that 2025 will rank as the second or third hottest year ever recorded in 176 years of record keeping, with global temperatures between January and August measuring 1.42 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

The past eleven years from 2015 to 2025 have been the hottest since temperature records began, with 2023, 2024 and 2025 representing the three warmest years on record according to United Nations climate data released ahead of COP30.</span

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The past eleven years from 2015 to 2025 have been the hottest since temperature records began, with 2023, 2024 and 2025 representing the three warmest years on record according to United Nations climate data released ahead of COP30.

Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2025, continuing to rise from 2024's already record levels and locking in additional heat for future years according to the World Meteorological Organization.</span

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Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2025, continuing to rise from 2024's already record levels and locking in additional heat for future years according to the World Meteorological Organization.

World leaders gathered in Belem, Brazil for the COP30 climate summit, with notable absences including the United States under President Trump, who withdrew from the Paris Agreement and calls climate change a hoax, along with China and India.</span

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World leaders gathered in Belem, Brazil for the COP30 climate summit, with notable absences including the United States under President Trump, who withdrew from the Paris Agreement and calls climate change a hoax, along with China and India.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described allowing global warming to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius as moral failure and deadly negligence, while scientists warn that limiting warming to this target is now virtually impossible without overshooting.</span

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described allowing global warming to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius as moral failure and deadly negligence, while scientists warn that limiting warming to this target is now virtually impossible without overshooting.

Brazil launched a new rainforest conservation fund called the Tropical Forests Forever Facility to pay 74 heavily forested developing countries to preserve their trees, while the number of countries with early warning systems doubled from 56 to 119 since 2015.</span

Brazil launched a new rainforest conservation fund called the Tropical Forests Forever Facility to pay 74 heavily forested developing countries to preserve their trees, while the number of countries with early warning systems doubled from 56 to 119 since 2015.

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