THE world is on the road to ruin unless nations act to stop climate change, the United Nations (UN) warned yesterday.

The international body said that 2024 had “capped a decade of unprecedented heat fuelled by human activities.”

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which will publish official temperature figures for 2024 in January, said the year “saw record-breaking rainfall and flooding events and terrible loss of life in so many countries, causing heartbreak to communities on every continent.”