The outcome at COP30 shows both progress and peril.
The World Meteorological Organization welcomes the reaffirmed commitment to multilateralism and negotiated solutions to challenges that are too big for countries to confront alone.
Of particular importance is the call to countries to triple adaptation finance to help countries prepare for more extreme weather and climate impacts which are devastating communities and disrupting national economies and global supply chains.
Now, more than ever, we must turn promise into practice. Our goal of "Early Warnings for All" is not a luxury but a lifeline - every dollar invested in warning systems can save many more in human and economic losses. We are making progress, but we need to go further and faster to close observation and data gaps and scale early-warning capacity in the most vulnerable regions.
The outcomes of COP30 highlighted that the gap between where we are and what science demands remains dangerously wide. It was a COP of Truth and we must be realistic that we are far off track.
The World Meteorological Organization State of the Climate Update - a report grounded in science to guide COP30 with trusted evidence - shows that 2025 is set to be either the second or third warmest year we have ever observed. Concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are their highest in 800,000 years, thus committing our planet to a warmer and more dangerous future.
The record increase in greenhouse gas levels means that it will be virtually impossible to limit global warming to 1.5 °C in the next few years without temporarily overshooting the Paris Agreement target.
It is essential to bring temperatures back down to 1.5 °C by the end of the century and to keep the temporary overshoot as small, as short and as safe as possible.
WMO remains committed to provide the science to help inform cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and to equip countries with the tools and knowledge to cope with a changing climate.
We can't rewrite the laws of physics, but we MUST rewrite our path.
