Updates on climate change?

If you mean the latest global picture, the clearest verified signals available to me are from 2024 and early 2025. The trend is still serious, even as clean-energy deployment grows.

Temperatures and impacts

2024 was the warmest year in the instrumental record. The World Meteorological Organization estimated the global average at about 1.55°C above the 1850–1900 average. That makes 2024 the first calendar year above 1.5°C, but it does not by itself mean the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature limit has been formally crossed; that is judged over a longer period.

Heat, heavy rainfall, drought and wildfire conditions have affected different regions, with climate change increasing the likelihood or intensity of some extreme events. Sea level also continues to rise, and the rate measured in recent years is higher than in the early satellite-record period.

Emissions, energy and climate policy

Global greenhouse-gas emissions remain high, so the underlying warming pressure has not gone away. At the same time, renewable energy is expanding quickly: IRENA reported a record 585 gigawatts of renewable capacity added worldwide in 2024. That is meaningful progress, but it does not yet mean fossil fuels have been displaced fast enough to halt warming.

At COP29 in 2024, countries agreed to a new climate-finance goal of at least $300 billion a year for developing countries by 2035, alongside a broader call to scale up finance. How much funding is delivered, and on what terms, remains a key issue.

In short, the recent updates point in two directions: clean energy is scaling up, while temperatures, emissions and climate risks continue to rise. For a 2025–26 data refresh, check current releases from the WMO, Copernicus and the Global Carbon Project.