UN / GLOBAL TEMPERATURES REPORT

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that 2025 was one of the three warmest years on record, continuing the streak of extraordinary global temperatures. The past 11 years have been the 11 warmest on record, and ocean heating continues unabated. UNIFEED

• Video Length: 00:01:18
• Production Date: 14 January 2026
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION - WMO
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE; WEATHER; GLOBAL WARMING
• MAMS Id: 3524479
• Parent Id: 3524479
• Alternate Title: unifeed260114f

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STORY: UN / GLOBAL TEMPERATURES REPORT
TRT: 01:18
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 14 JANUARY 2026, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

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RECENT – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations

14 JANUARY 2026, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The World Meteorological Organization in Geneva today confirmed that 2025 was one of the three warmest years on record. This is continuing the streak of extraordinary global temperatures. WMO also pointed out that [the past] 11 years have been the 11 warmest on record. The global average surface temperature on earth was 1.44 °C above the 1850-1900 average. That is what WMO’s consolidated analysis [of eight datasets] tells us. Two of these datasets ranked 2025 as the second warmest year in the 176-year that we have been keeping records, and the other six ranked it as the third warmest year. The World Meteorological Organization added that a separate study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences shows that ocean temperatures were also some of the highest on record in 2025, reflecting the long-term accumulation of heat within the climate system.”
4. Wide shot, presser

Storyline

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that 2025 was one of the three warmest years on record, continuing the streak of extraordinary global temperatures. The past 11 years have been the 11 warmest on record, and ocean heating continues unabated.

The global average surface temperature was 1.44 °C (with a margin of uncertainty of ± 0.13 °C) above the 1850-1900 average, according to WMO’s consolidated analysis of eight datasets. Two of these datasets ranked 2025 as the second warmest year in the 176-year record, and the other six ranked it as the third warmest year.

The past three years, 2023-2025, are the three warmest years in all eight datasets. The consolidated three-year average 2023-2025 temperature is 1.48 °C (with a margin of uncertainty of ± 0.13 °C) above the pre-industrial era. The past eleven years, 2015-2025, are the eleven warmest years in all eight datasets.

In a press release, WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said, “The year 2025 started and ended with a cooling La Niña and yet it was still one of the warmest years on record globally because of the accumulation of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. High land and ocean temperatures helped fuel extreme weather – heatwaves, heavy rainfall and intense tropical cyclones, underlining the vital need for early warning systems.”

Celeste Saulo also said, “WMO’s state of the climate monitoring, based on collaborative and scientifically rigorous global data collection, is more important than ever before because we need to ensure that Earth information is authoritative, accessible and actionable for all.”