GENEVA, March 23 (Reuters) - 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.
(Reporting by Emma Farge and Cecile MantovaniEditing by Miranda Murray)
