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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Ashish Ghadiali

Could Barbados blueprint be a Marshall Plan for the climate crisis?

A home in Corozal, Puerto Rico, ruined by Hurricane Maria, September 2017
A home in Corozal, Puerto Rico, ruined in the path of Hurricane Maria, September 2017. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Mia Mottley’s speeches in defence of climate justice dominated media headlines at Cop26 in Scotland last year, where she called on world leaders to seize the moment and deliver on climate action. On Monday she tried again. “We have the collective capacity to transform,” she urged those gathered at Cop27 in Egypt.

One of the main targets in the sights of Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, is a new finance solution to the climate crisis, which is swiftly becoming one of the key issues being negotiated at the conference.

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