Reacción a "Extreme weather events in 2025 pushed adaptation capacity to its limits"

The WWA 2025 Report insists that we are already living in a profoundly altered climate, with uneven impacts, uneven scientific evidence and clear limits to adaptation. Faced with all this, the only realistic way to avoid catastrophic and irreversible consequences of climate change is to rapidly reduce emissions while simultaneously strengthening adaptation, science and global equity.

The report concludes that since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, while global warming has increased by 0.3 °C, some heatwaves have become almost ten times more likely, providing further evidence that, when it comes to climate change, every fraction of a degree matters. The report emphasises that heatwaves are the deadliest extreme weather events and were also the deadliest in 2025, although most heat-related deaths remain underreported and undervalued globally. Unlike other extreme events, such as floods or wildfires, heatwaves can rightly be called the “silent killer”, as they do not leave a trail of destruction in their wake like storms or wildfires do.

The real-time attribution studies carried out by the WWA initiative are extremely valuable because they scientifically link specific extreme weather and climate events to human-induced climate change. The increase in the frequency and intensity of these extreme events is perhaps one of the most affecting and noticeable consequences of climate change for the population, which is why this type of study greatly contributes to communicating the problem of climate change.