The UN Secretary General's climate change summit in September 2019 will provide an indication of whether the facilitative dialogue has provided countries with inputs to raise the ambition of their climate actions. The world is not on track to meeting the Paris Agreement's temperature goal of 2°C and even less so for the 1.5°C goal (UNEP 2018a, IPCC 2018). As for meeting the aspirational goal of keeping temperature rise below 1.5C, as small-island states have pushed for, this would require transformation of energy, transport and food sectors on an unprecedented scale.