"I'm truly glad, slightly exhausted, but truly glad that we managed to do this," says Wopke Hoekstra, EU Commissioner for Climate Action, at the conclusion of the COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the world early on Sunday approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal. Despite Hoekstra’s positivity, the $300 billion annual target has been dismissed by poorer nations. "On the global stock take, on 1.5 degrees, it's disappointing," says UK Energy Minister Ed Miliband. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES