Without Implementation Guidelines that everyone can live with, we risk chaos in Poland and the possibility of yet another delay in the urgent work of combatting climate change.

While speaking in Bangkok, Prime Minister and COP23 President Voreqe Bainimarama wasted no time delivering his message to the climate negotiators who are gathered this week for an extra session to make progress on the Paris Agreement Implementation Guidelines.

Bainimarama frankly stated that in three months time climate negotiators will be in Poland and they are not ready.

He says that he thinks that the climate negotiators all know they have not progressed far enough, which is why they are in Bangkok in what they are calling an "additional" negotiating session.

Bainimarama has stressed that it is not just an additional session; it is an urgent session.

The Prime Minister reminded the diplomats present in Bangkok that in the next few days, they will have an opportunity to put the Paris Agreement on the path from words to action, to make it fully operational and in doing so build a springboard for the urgent additional climate action that people need.

Bainimarama also spoke plainly about the additional effort needed to turn good intentions into action adding that in a global effort to confront climate change, tens of millions of words have been spoken, and nearly as many promises have been made to the people they represent.

He adds that if all the noble intentions of all the good people who have built this process since 1992 could be converted to clean energy, we could resolve the crisis now, but intentions are not actions.

Bainimarama then went on to urge the negotiators to rediscover the spirit of leadership, cooperation and compromise that led to the historic Paris Agreement in 2015 and to work in good faith with each other to reach out across natural divides, find common ground and come closer to fulfilling their responsibility.