2024 Confirmed as Warmest Year on Record, Surpassing 1.5°C Threshold

The WMO's latest report highlights irreversible climate impacts but emphasizes that limiting warming to 1.5°C remains achievable with urgent global action.

Global average temperature in 2024 was 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels, exceeding the critical 1.5°C threshold for the first time.
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations reached 420 ppm in 2024, the highest level in 800,000 years, driving long-term warming trends.
Sea level rise has accelerated to 4.7 mm per year, with 2024 seeing an unprecedented annual increase of 5.9 mm, largely due to ocean heat expansion.
Antarctic ice extent and global glacier mass reached record lows over the past three years, with impacts deemed irreversible over centuries or millennia.
Extreme weather events in 2024 displaced more people than any year since 2008, exacerbating food crises and causing significant economic losses.