France, Jan. 14 -- The past 11 years are now the warmest ever recorded, with 2024 the hottest and 2023 in second place, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service and the US-based research group Berkeley Earth said.

For the first time, global temperatures averaged more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels over a three-year period, Copernicus said in its annual report.

Average global temperatures in 2025 were 1.47C above pre-industrial times, just below 2023 and following 1.6C in 2024, Copernicus said.

Data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts showed 2025 was only 0.01C cooler than 2023.

Britain's Met Office also ranked 2025 as the third-hottest year since records began in 1850.

"The warming spike observed from...