All of this will only be possible with ambitious leadership, skilful diplomacy and a commitment to drive sustainability into every financial and economic decision in 2025 and beyond.

This will entail rewiring our financial architecture to allow public and private finance to flow seamlessly to where it is needed most. It also means aligning all financial flows with Sustainable Development Goals.

As ever, the pressure will need to stay to ensure that Baku to Belem roadmap delivers tangible results and lifts the finance goal much closer to the needs of developing countries.

An ambitious vision of the future, however, it was not.

While the final figure for the NCQG of US $300bn is lower than expectations, provisions around mobilisation of finance to LDCs and SIDs - along with the launch of a Baku to Belem roadmap to drive the figure closer to US $1.3tn per year - made it a palatable compromise.

Coming at the end of what looks like another hottest year on record, the Baku COP kicked off with an agreement on carbon markets which, while not perfect, has been a long time coming and so was seen as a positive sign.