There are just three days until the United Nations publishes its first-ever global balance sheet, assessing how nations are doing in the fight against climate change. The world is losing the race to meet its climate change goals, the president of the upcoming COP28 climate summit said on Tuesday (September 5th). He was speaking as African presidents gathered in Kenya to discuss how to finance the continent's environmental agenda. The gloomy assessment by Sultan Al Jaber, who will chair a summit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the end of November, came three days before the United Nations publishes its first "global balance sheet".  This assessment of how nations are doing in the fight against climate change will tell the world what efforts need to be stepped up to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.  "The world is losing the race to meet the Paris Agreement targets and the world is struggling to keep 1.5 (°C) within reach," he said Jaber, who is also the head of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company , a delegate at the inaugural Africa Climate event. Summit in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi. (Euronews Green with Reuters)