The hosts of this year's UN climate summit has urged governments to start compromising to break a deadlock over how to help poorer countries tackle global warming.
However, poorer nations are the least responsible for carbon emissions but suffer the most from a warming planet. "We clearly need a rapid increase in the pace of our work. Time lost is lives, livelihoods and the planet lost," wrote Mr Babayev, a government minister and former executive at Azerbaijan's national oil company.
Negotiators are nowhere near agreeing on a monetary aid figure, with negotiations bogged down over who should pay, what form the money should take, and who should receive it.