[HIGHLIGHTS] Global warming: for the first time, the planet's temperature exceeds 1.5°C in an entire year

In 2015, it was agreed to try to limit long-term temperature rise to 1.5°C. This first breach does not break that historic "Paris agreement" But it brings the world closer to doing so in the long term.

The period between February 2023 and January 2024 reached 1.52°C of warming, according to the EU Copernicus Climate Change Service. "This far exceeds anything that is acceptable," Professor Sir Bob Watson, former president of the UN climate body, told BBC Radio 4.