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Climate Setbacks and Steps Forward From 2025

This year, Los Angeles wildfires burned 78 square miles, destroyed over 16,000 structures, forced 180,000 evacuations, and caused damages estimated between $76 billion and $131 billion.
Soon after the One Big Beautiful Bill, federal disaster tracking stopped monitoring billion-dollar disasters, and policies that rolled back climate progress emerged.
In the first half of 2025, wind and solar produced more electricity than coal globally, with solar installations rising 64% driven largely by China, while U.S. solar grew only 4%.
Researchers published a revised toll noting the L.A. wildfire death toll is 440 including smoke, while floods killed at least 135 in Kerr County, Texas, and storms killed over 1,750 in Asia monsoon regions.
At COP30 in November, negotiators failed to wind down fossil fuels despite calls from more than 80 nations, scientists concluded coral reefs and ocean acidification crossed a tipping point, and UN projections show warming between 2.3 and 2.8 degrees.

Insights by Ground AI