FILE PHOTO: People enjoy the sunset at Alte Donau, an abandoned meander of the river Danube during a heat wave in Vienna, Austria, August 14, 2024. REUTERS/Elisabeth Mandl/File Photo
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - This year will be the world's warmest since records began, with extraordinarily high temperatures expected to persist into at least the first few months of 2025, European Union scientists said on Monday.
The data from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) comes two weeks after U.N. climate talks yielded a $300-billion deal to tackle climate change, a package poorer countries blasted as insufficient to cover the soaring cost of climate-related disasters.
