Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

Exclusive: Antonio Guterres says world's accounting systems should place true value on the environment

• Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out?

The global economy must be radically transformed to stop it rewarding pollution and waste, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has warned.

Speaking to the Guardian after the UN hosted a meeting of leading global economists, Guterres said humanity's future required the urgent overhaul of the world's existing accounting systems" he said were driving the planet to the brink of disaster.