At a drinks event before President Macron’s recent climate summit in Paris, the new Barbadian High Commissioner to London told me a startling fact: his country’s entire GDP could be wiped out by a single hurricane in just four hours.
Milton Innis’s words were ringing in my ears from the moment the opening ceremony began. His Prime Minister, Mai Mottley, was a co-chair of the summit for a New Global Financing Pact. Her island nation and others like it are on a knife edge, at the brutal front line of our climate crisis — as her High Commissioner’s words had brutally illustrated.
