The latest data from the European Copernicus Climate Change Service project 2024 to likely end up at least 1.55C hotter than pre-industrial times. This would make it the first entire calendar year to breach 1.5C of warming, something countries agreed to try to avoid in the 2015 Paris agreement.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 81% by 2035 as he committed the country to a more ambitious climate goal at the United Nations COP29 climate summit. The new goal is in line with a recommendation from a committee of climate advisers who said last month the target should exceed the current 78% cut to emissions,