Urgency is giving way to frustration as this year's UN climate talks enter their second and final week in the Spanish capital, Madrid.
This week, ministers and country leaders arrive for the final phase of the negotiations, including New Zealand's climate change minister James Shaw.
Mr Shaw has spoken of the country's need to stand united with small Pacific countries, who have been some of the most vocal at the summit, known as COP.
He'll be touting the government's Zero Carbon Act, but analysis - including one released last week by the Germany-based Climate Action Tracker - suggests that even with the act, New Zealand's performing poorly.
If every country did the same as us, it said, the world would be on track for 3 degrees of warming -- double the goal of the Paris Agreement.
But Mr Shaw says the new law is just part of the parcel, and New Zealand will do more to assuage concerns.
