NEW DEHLI - Environment ministers from G20 nations are meeting in India on Friday.
They're in a race against time to reach a last-minute consensus to tackle the global climate crisis.
South Africa is represented by minister Barbara Creecy, who'll participate in the G20’s Environment, and Climate Sustainability Working Group.
But experts are not expecting any major breakthrough as delegates were stuck in negotiations until late Thursday, on climate change adaption finance, mitigation and peaking emissions.
Any agreements reached at the one-day conference in Chennai will be signed by leaders of G20 nations - constituting more than 80 percent of the global GDP and CO2 emissions.
That summit is due to take place in New Delhi this September.
The meeting comes only days after the group's energy ministers were criticised for failing to agree, on a road map to cut fossil fuels from the global energy mix.
This all comes amidst record global temperatures that have triggered floods, storms and heatwaves.