More than a day past the scheduled end of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, negotiators from almost 200 nations approved a deal to marshal the vast sums of money that poorer nations need to cope with global warming’s worst effects.

The $300 billion will go to developing countries who need the cash to wean themselves off the coal, oil and gas that causes the globe to overheat, adapt to future warming and pay for the damage caused by climate change's extreme weather.

The Samoan chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States explains why some of developing nations left the talks in Baku.