The annual UN climate change conference ( COP22 ) kicked off on Monday in Marrakech, Morocco, where stakeholders gathered to build on the scaffolding put in place by Paris’ climate change conference in 2015.

At the conference, the first global climate talk after last year’s landmark Paris Agreement, a wide range of stakeholders will tackle a diverse spread of topics, from renewable energy to blue carbon.

In his opening statement, COP22 president and Morroco’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Salaheddine Mezouar, urged all countries to be more ambitious in tackling climate change, the world’s most significant crisis.

“The eyes of the world are on us. I would like to invite you over the coming 11 days to be more ambitious than ever in your commitments,” he said in a press statement sent out by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Monday.

Bolstering COP22’s urgency was the knowledge that currently the international community is not doing enough.

Even if all the Paris pledges can be realized, the Earth is still set to experience a temperature rise of 2.9 degrees to 3.4 degrees Celsius this century, according to a UN Environment Emissions Gap report.

That number is way above the global threshold of two degrees, which is the maximum rise in temperature that the globe can experience this century before climate change begins to unleash serious consequences.

Furthermore, the Paris Agreement does not distribute responsibilities evenly to all countries as each country sets its own plan to reduce emissions — known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

“The Paris Agreement should have ensured fair distribution of responsibilities, especially for developed economies like the US and the European Union to lower their emissions, give funding and support for developing countries,” the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (WALHI) said in a position paper.

With such conditions, the Paris Agreement still gives leeway for polluters to keep polluting the Earth and emit greenhouse gasses, the NGO said.

Therefore, there was an air of anticipation in COP22, with parties for a climate deal now tasked with sustaining the momentum built by the Paris Agreement and translating pledges into actions.

“This conference comes in an atmosphere of hope and legitimate aspirations,” Mezouar said.

Also speaking at the opening ceremony, UNFCCC executive secretary Patricia Espinosa called for a sense of urgency throughout the conference.

“We need to work together with speed and scale on all fronts,” she said.

As one of the top global emitters, thanks to its annual land and forest fires and its heavy reliance on fossil fuel energy, Indonesia has a lot at stake.

WALHI called for the Indonesian government to not get trapped in the past global economic development framework promoted by developed countries which relies on environmentally destructive industries.

“Don’t get stuck in that framework by continuing to develop the economy with destructive infrastructure development, natural resources exploitation, dirty energy usage and the giving away of concessions,” WALHI said.