Climate change experts have warned global warming is happening faster than governments are reacting to the threat following the adoption of a set of rules outlined at this month's UN Climate Conference in Poland.
Almost 200 nations, including the world's top greenhouse gas producers, China and the US, adopted a set of rules meant to breathe life into the 2015 Paris climate accord by setting out how countries should report their emissions and efforts to reduce them.
But negotiators delayed other key decisions until next year - a move that frustrated environmentalists and countries that wanted more ambitious goals in light of scientists' warnings that the world must shift sharply away from fossil fuels in the coming decade.
Professor David Karoly, Leader of the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub National Environmental Science Program at CSIRO, said having followed the UN discussions, more needs to be done to limit global warming.
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