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Countries have been urged to boost their emissions cutting goals by 2022, according to a draft UN climate summit text released on Wednesday.
The draft called for nations to "revisit and strengthen" their decarbonisation plans by next year, rather than 2025 as previously agreed.
It added that limiting heating to 1.5C "requires meaningful and effective action by all parties in this critical decade".
The draft is the first sign of where nations are just over a week into the COP26 talks in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
The release comes in the wake of data showing pledges made so far left the world way behind its goal of limiting heating to 1.5C.
A number of countries who are large emitters missed the 2020 deadline for submitting new plans, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
Meanwhile, vulnerable nations argue that the next deadline, in 2025, is too far to deliver the short-term emissions reductions needed to avert catastrophic heating.
As the summit heads into its final two days, the text is expected to change as ministers begin high-level debates.
Negotiators are tasked with accelerating national decarbonisation plans, stumping up long-promised finance for vulnerable nations and finalising rules of the Paris Agreement on carbon markets and transparency.
Elsewhere, climate scientists and environmental groups denounced the draft not reflecting the urgency of the catastrophe facing the planet.
"This draft deal is not a plan to solve the climate crisis, it's an agreement that we'll all cross our fingers and hope for the best," Greenpeace International Director Jennifer Morgan said.
"It's a polite request that countries maybe, possibly, do more next year."
Sources:CGTN
