Impacts:

• NOAA have reported on the global temperature figures for April 2025.

• Average global surface temperatures were 14.96°C. That is 1.51°C above pre-industrial average, making it the the second warmest April globally.

• It was the second warmest April for global sea surface temperatures.

• April 2025 was the 21st month in the last 22 months for which the global-average surface air temperature was more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level.

On May 10th this year, global CO2 concentrations at Mauna Loa, Hawaii reached 431.25ppm, a new record high. Despite the increasing level of alarm from scientists around the world concerning the levels of fossil fuel emissions, there is no sign of CO2 levels falling. They continue to rise unabated.

• The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) State of the Climate in Africa 2024 report has just been published. In it, they report that Africa just endured its hottest or second-hottest year on record. Sea temperatures, particularly in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, were also abnormally high and rapidly rising.

• Extreme weather events are affecting socio-economic development in Africa, WMO warned, disrupting agriculture and energy supplies, increasing food and water insecurity, and threatening health and education for millions of people.

• Earth.org reports that climate-related disasters such as droughts and floods are driving increasing displacement across the African continent, with the number of internally displaced people now six times higher than 15 years ago, according to a report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre published in November.