Photos: Planet-warming dangers of climate change

Cars drive along the roads through high-rise buildings in the haze in the central business district (CBD) in Beijing. The world must slash its emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases by 7.6 percent every year to 2030 or miss the chance to avert devastating climate change, the United Nations said on November 26, 2019.

A thick layer of pollution hanging over the Seoul skyline. In its annual Emissions Gap report, the UN's Environment Programme said anything short of a drastic and immediate drawdown in fossil fuel use worldwide would put the Paris treaty temperature cap of 1.5C "out of reach".

A junk sails past the city's skyline shrouded in a dense blanket of toxic smog in Hong Kong.

A commuter bus running on diesel fuel emits thick trail of pollutants in Jakarta.

The cracked riverbed due to drought in the Guadalteba reservoir, in Los Campillos.

An Indian farmer walks across the bed of a pond built under an Indian government scheme that has dried out during a water crisis in Katra village, 45km from Allahabad.

This aerial photo taken shows cattle on a dry paddock in the drought-hit area of Quirindi in New South Wales.

Birds fly as smoke billows from a fire in a landfill on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.

Smoke billowing from the refinery of the Pond of Berre in Marignane.

Icebergs break off the Vatnajokull Glacier before floating to sea.

Aerial view of deforestation in the Western Amazon region of Brazil.

Aletsch glacier above Bettmeralp, Swiss Alps, which could completely disappear by the end of this century if nothing is done to rein in climate change.