2024 Breaches 1.5 Degree Global Warming Limit
2024 was the warmest year on record.
The EU's climate change monitoring service says it was the first to exceed 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial era.
Since 2016 - when the Paris Accord was signed - countries have been committed to ensuring temperatures don't go 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial era.
That commitment has been broken.
Copurnicus from the EU says human-made climate change is the reason for extreme air and sea temperatures which is causing more severe weather events around the world - including in Ireland.
The data shows the 10 warmest years on records - which date back more than 170 years - were in the last decade.
In Europe specificially 2024 was the warmest year on record - while there were also temperature records set for both spring and summer last year.
While concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere reached record levels as well last year.
The head of Copernicus has said 'humanity is in charge of its own destiny', and 'decisive action can still alter the trajectory' of the planet's climate.
