A day behind schedule, the signatory states at the UN Climate Conference in Katowice managed to agree on a framework for reporting national climate protection and climate change adaptation measures in line with the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The framework represents an important step in the right direction. However, an increase in climate ambition – that is, how national climate targets could already be tightened towards a maximum of +1.5°C – did not take place to a sufficient degree. The world is therefore on course for a catastrophic +3°C. Climate science delivered in good time before the negotiations, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on the 1.5°C target, and in Austria with the APCC report on health, demography and climate change. Science is also increasingly taking on its role in the implementation debate, particularly with regard to innovative dialogue formats that bring relevant stakeholders together in an action-oriented way. However, the major levers must be kept in sight. For the processes that have been set in motion to be implemented adequately at both global and local level, the right framework conditions are needed. <link https: www.wienerzeitung.at meinungen gastkommentare _blank external-link-new-window external link in new>Read the full commentary in the 18 December 2018 edition of the Wiener Zeitung