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2024 'certain' to be hottest year on record: EU monitor

Azerbaijan, Baku: Activists from Fridays for Future Germany demonstrate with other activists at the UN Climate Summit COP29.[AFP]

This year is "effectively certain" to be the hottest on record and the first above a critical threshold to protect the planet from dangerously overheating, Europe's climate monitor said Monday.

The new benchmark affirmed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service caps a year in which countries rich and poor were hammered by disasters that scientists have linked to humanity's role in Earth's rapid warming.

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