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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey in Baku

Barbados PM asks Donald Trump for face-to-face meeting on climate

Mia Mottley speaks at Cop29 in Baku
Mia Mottley says the massive changes needed on climate action can only be achieved by personal meetings among world leaders. Photograph: Dominika Zarzycka/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Mia Mottley, the climate-championing prime minister of Barbados, has invited Donald Trump to a face-to-face meeting where she would seek “common ground” and persuade him that climate action was in his own interests.

“Let us find a common purpose in saving the planet and saving livelihoods,” she told the Guardian at the UN’s Cop29 climate summit in Azerbaijan. “We are human beings and we have the capacity to meet face-to-face, in spite of our differences. We want humanity to survive. And the evidence [of the climate crisis] we are seeing almost weekly now.”

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