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John Kerry, who helped riveting Paris climate agreement in 2015 One man, who retired as Secretary of State and retired to become President Biden’s climate ambassador, arrived at the United Nations summit on Monday with an elaborate message: This is critically important but not the last chance for action.

“Glasgow was never going to be a definitive meeting,” he said in a recent interview.

This is in contrast to Mr. Kerry’s statements last month, where he described the summit as: “last best hope“To reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to prevent the worst consequences of climate change.

The purpose of the 26th session of the UN climate agreement Conference of the Parties, or COP26is to encourage world leaders to cut planet-warming emissions sufficiently to prevent temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. At this point, effects such as sea level rise, ruined crop yields and the death of coral reefs become irreversible. Glasgow will be the first time since nations agreed to cut emissions in 2015 when leaders were asked to increase their targets.

expectations for Glasgow summit High school. A banner that reads “The world is looking at you, COP26” welcomes those arriving at the airport.

“Glass should deliver where Paris promised” Alok SharmaThe British politician, who is the chairman of the conference, announced at the official opening of the meeting on Sunday.

But the truth is, leaders realize that this won’t happen. China, India, Russia, Australia and Saudi Arabia have published weak or no new plans to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuels this decade. And the United States of America has an ambitious target Roughly halving emissions by 2030 fails to pass legislation that would enable this target to be met.

Mr. Kerry noted that very few countries had committed 1.5 degrees to attainable targets when Mr. Biden took office. “We have challenged, persuaded and negotiated countless countries,” he said, and nations that now represent about 65 percent of global economic output have ambitious targets for the next decade.

“Glasgow was never going to be able to get every country to participate,” said Kerry. “It would drive the rise of greed on a global basis, and the truth is that greed will rise more in Glasgow than in Glasgow all the time.”

Mr. Kerry said he is already looking to next year to build on countries’ promises and force them to do more.

“It is critical that countries make better plans,” Mr. Kerry said in a phone call with reporters on Sunday. “We are struggling to maintain the 1.5 degree target”