Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02790-yClimate targets are set for global temperatures, but what they mean regionally is less clear. Here the authors quantify the amount of human-induced warming in individual IPCC regions and find that, by 2025, they had reached 90–94% (65–76%) of their expected warming levels at the 1.5 °C (2 °C) global warming thresholds.