The US special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, will visit three European countries this week to discuss efforts on addressing climate change before the Cop26 summit in Glasgow.
Mr Kerry will visit Switzerland, Italy and France to meet climate officials and business leaders to discuss the need for clean energy in tackling the climate crisis.
His trip will conclude with a meeting in Paris on raising finances to battle the crisis.
Cop26, a two-week summit starting on October 31, is expected to bring together world leaders, climate experts and thousands of delegates from around the world to tackle climate change.
Mr Kerry on Tuesday told ABC News that the world must act now to reduce carbon emissions.
"Every country has to go faster. None of us can say we're really fast," he said.
Only a handful of countries are meeting targets set out by the 2015 Paris Climate Accords, Mr Kerry said.
Under the Paris Agreement, world governments pledged to keep global warming “well below” 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and even to 1.5°C.
The accord at the time was considered to be a landmark in tackling the climate crisis.
But the UN's most recent climate report said that the world was forecast to warm by an average of 2.7°C by the end of the century.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres offered a bleak assessment in the weeks leading up to Cop26, saying the world is "seemingly light years away from reaching our targets".
US President Joe Biden this month said recent extreme weather events were proof that climate change was here.
Last week Mr Biden pledged that the US would double the funds it committed under the Paris Agreement to assist poorer nations fight climate change.
But Mr Guterres remains sceptical, believing that mistrust between richer nations and developing countries puts the Glasgow summit at risk of failure.
"We are on the verge of the abyss, and when you are on the verge of the abyss, you need to be very careful about what the next step is," he said.
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hall of shame
SUNDERLAND 2002-03
No one has ended a Premier League season quite like Sunderland. They lost each of their final 15 games, taking no points after January. They ended up with 19 in total, sacking managers Peter Reid and Howard Wilkinson and losing 3-1 to Charlton when they scored three own goals in eight minutes.
SUNDERLAND 2005-06
Until Derby came along, Sunderland’s total of 15 points was the Premier League’s record low. They made it until May and their final home game before winning at the Stadium of Light while they lost a joint record 29 of their 38 league games.
HUDDERSFIELD 2018-19
Joined Derby as the only team to be relegated in March. No striker scored until January, while only two players got more assists than goalkeeper Jonas Lossl. The mid-season appointment Jan Siewert was to end his time as Huddersfield manager with a 5.3 per cent win rate.
ASTON VILLA 2015-16
Perhaps the most inexplicably bad season, considering they signed Idrissa Gueye and Adama Traore and still only got 17 points. Villa won their first league game, but none of the next 19. They ended an abominable campaign by taking one point from the last 39 available.
FULHAM 2018-19
Terrible in different ways. Fulham’s total of 26 points is not among the lowest ever but they contrived to get relegated after spending over £100 million (Dh457m) in the transfer market. Much of it went on defenders but they only kept two clean sheets in their first 33 games.
LA LIGA: Sporting Gijon, 13 points in 1997-98.
BUNDESLIGA: Tasmania Berlin, 10 points in 1965-66
