Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has urged global leaders on unified climate finance response.
She made this plea while speaking to AFP in an interview.
She said, “This is our new reality in a climate crisis world.”
She said this in response to events linked to a summit hosted by France to rethink how the world funds international goals to end
poverty and halt global warming.
News of the storm had made Mottley, who co-headlined the summit, agonise about whether to rush home, underscoring the challenges small island nations face.
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In the end, she told fellow leaders at the opening of the meeting, she decided to stay to help push for action.
She said the summit has played a key role in galvanising world leaders on reforms that had languished on the global to-do list for years, but she is keen underscore that this is an “inclusive process” involving a host of other countries, organisations and civil society.
“We only have this planet and unless you have a plan to live on Mars that I don’t know about then we need to work together to make it better,” she said.
Mottley, who on Thursday called for “absolute transformation” of institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, sounded a note of caution about the level of political will.
“I think that there are problems in getting governments to overcome domestic politics and geopolitics,” she said.
