The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European Union stated on Thursday that this year is “virtually certain” to surpass 2023 as the warmest on record.

The information was made public in advance of the UN COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan next week, where nations will attempt to reach an agreement on a significant boost in spending to address

Since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, anticipation for the negotiations has decreased.

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According to C3S, unless the temperature anomaly in the remaining months of the year drops to almost zero, 2024 will undoubtedly be the hottest year on record because the average global temperature was so high from January to October.

“Climate change is the fundamental, underlying cause of this year’s record,” C3S Director Carlo Buontempo told Reuters.

In general, the climate is warming.

All ocean basins and continents are warming. Therefore, it is certain that those records will be broken,” he stated.

According to the scientists, 2024 will also mark the first time that the world will be more than 1.5C hotter than it was during the pre-industrial era of 1850–1900, when people started using fossil fuels on a large scale.

Carbon Global warming is mostly caused by carbon dioxide emissions from burning coal, oil, and gas.

The milestone did not surprise Sonia Seneviratne, a climate scientist at the public research institution ETH Zurich.

At COP29, she urged governments to take more decisive action to transition their economy away from fossil fuels that release CO2.

Given the excessively sluggish pace of global climate action, the boundaries established in the Paris Agreement are beginning to fall apart, Seneviratne stated.

In order to prevent the worst effects of global warming, nations committed to preventing it from rising above 1.5C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Although the globe has not yet surpassed that objective, which calls for an average global temperature of 1.5C over several decades, C3S currently projects that the world will surpass the Paris target by 2030.

According to Buontempo, “it’s practically around the corner now.”

Extreme weather is fuelled by every degree of temperature increase.

Food prices skyrocketed in October when record wildfires ravaged Peru, devastating flash floods killed hundreds in Spain, and flooding in Bangladesh ruined over a million tonnes of rice.

Climate change brought on by humans also made Hurricane Milton worse in the United States.

Records from C3S dating back to 1940 are compared to records of world temperatures dating back to 1850.