UN weather agency confirms hottest decade on record

The years between 2015 and 2025 have been the hottest since records began, the U.N. weather agency said on Monday, with 2025 ranking either second or third overall.

* The World Meteorological Organization report said2015-2025 were the hottest 11 years since records began in 1850. * 2025 was either the second or third hottest on record, theWMO State of the Global Climate report said, at about 1.43degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average. * This confirms an earlier report from the WMO that 2025 wasone of the three hottest on record. * Glacier mass loss at key sites was among the five worst onrecord, the report said, with exceptional declines reported inIceland and North America. * "The state of the global climate is in a state ofemergency. Planet Earth is being pushed beyond its limits. Everykey climate indicator is flashing red," said UnitedNations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. * The report also confirmed that 2024 was the hottest yearat about 1.55 degrees C above the pre-industrial average. * Governments pledged under the 2015 Paris Agreement to tryto avoid exceeding 1.5 degrees C of global warming.