With one month to go until the crucial UN climate conference in Glasgow, which aims to solidify agreement between the delegation on curbing dangerous global temperature rises, Sharma warned countries have not delivered all the needed commitments on emissions cuts or finance.
The COP26 president said the “ball is in the court” of countries such as China to unveil stronger action to cut pollution for this decade. Sharma also said he is continuing to press developed nations to deliver a long-promised $100bn (£74bn) a year to help poorer countries tackle climate change.
Sharma's comments come after a UN report on the national action plans put forward by countries to meet the goals of the global Paris Agreement to curb temperature rises to well below 2°C and pursue efforts to limit them to 1.5°C.
It found current plans for cutting greenhouse gas leave the world well off track to meet its goals, with projected emissions rises of 16 per cent on 2010 levels...