Humans 'will incinerate our only home', UN chief warns

A local resident gestures as he holds n empty water hose during an attempt to extinguish forest fires approaching the village of Pefki on Evia (Euboea) Island, off Greece, on August 8, 2021. Picture: Angelos Tzortziniz/AFP via Getty Images

Fossil fuel production must end and renewable energy must be accelerated, or else humans will "incinerate our only home", the UN chief has said, following a damning new report on the climate crisis.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said that a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) showing climate change indicators breaking records "is a dismal litany of humanity’s failure to tackle climate disruption".