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Barbados' Leader Offers Climate Pragmatism From a Sinking Island
“Hope is a condition that we choose, and we choose it irrespective of whether our difficulties are great or small,” Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, says on this week’s episode of Zero.
Mia Amor Mottley, Barbados' prime minister, at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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In the time since she became Prime Minister of Barbados in 2018, Mia Mottley has become known as a moral force for action on climate change.
The Bridgetown Initiative, which she launched at COP26 in 2021, transformed the conversation around climate finance – pushing rich nations to do more to support developing countries struggling with the impact of climate change.