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Mia Mottley

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Mia Amor Mottley is the prime minister of Barbados

December 2025

  • Fishing boats damaged by Hurricane Beryl at the Bridgetown Fisheries, Barbados, July 2024.

    double quotation markThis is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane

    Mia Mottley
    The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out, says the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley

June 2023

  • Houses in the Fort National district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

    double quotation mark‘A green transition that leaves no one behind’: world leaders release open letter

    Emmanuel Macron, Mia Mottley, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, Olaf Scholz, Fumio Kishida, William Ruto, Macky Sall, Cyril Ramaphosa, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden
    Rishi Sunak, Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and other international leaders address development needs

April 2023

  • A government food distribution point in Peshawar, Pakistan, 10 April 2023

    double quotation markThe world desperately needs a fairer economy – here’s how we can make that happen

    Mia Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
    Inflation and the climate crisis are hitting developing economies hardest. Trade is the key to helping them, say Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization
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