Mia Mottley Prepares for Center Stage at COP30
Barbados’ prime minister is pushing for urgent climate action to protect small island states and the rest of the developing world.
This article is adapted from AQ’s upcoming special report on China and Latin America BOGOTÁ—Four years ago, Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, walked onto the stage at the opening of the World Leaders’ Summit at COP26 in Glasgow and delivered the speech that would consolidate her as a global leader in climate justice and the voice of small island developing states. Global warming of two degrees Celsius would be “a death sentence” for the people of Antigua and Barbuda, the Maldives, Samoa, Barbados, and other states on the front lines of climate change, she said in her...
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