It is also set to be the world's first breach of 1.5C of warming across an entire calendar year.

2024 set to be hottest year on record due to climate change, urging stronger global action at COP29.

The European agency said the world was passing a "new milestone" of temperature records that should serve to accelerate action to cut planet-heating emissions.

The new report also says that global warming has hit a threshold, at least temporarily, that countries had pledged to avoid.

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service on Thursday said that this year is virtually certain to beat 2023 as the world's warmest since records began.This alarming data comes as...

New data from Copernicus estimates it will also be the first year over 1.5 degrees of global heating