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BARBADOS PM ON CLIMATE CHANGE PMOBarbados: Prime Minister Mia Mottley at Paris Summit ... 2023/06/22 PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74AnmWmtpEs Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
Prime Minister Mia Mottley at Paris Summit ... 2023/06/22 PMOBarbados 37.6K subscribers 869 likes 72,616 views Jun 23, 2023 20230622 Mottley at Paris Summit Transcript 0:01 president macron Secretary General distinguished colleague thanks distinguished guests people of the world the Paul's silence as we just learned and the power of voice as we must give expression to today the danger of inaction or slow action and the fundamental difference that committing and walking the walk and not just talk in the talk will mean we come to Paris today with a heavy heart but with hope we come to Paris today not to reinforce the divisions of the past the orders of the past 1:01 but we come to Paris to identify the common Humanity that we share and the absolute moral imperative to save our planet and to make it livable we don't need a lot more words today and quite honestly I don't know that I have it in me to give more words as I speak to you my country that is in Vincent in the Grenadines and others in the Caribbean in the Eastern Caribbean are under a tropical storm watch for tropical storm Beth literally yesterday I had to decide whether to stay or to go and I chose to stay because 2:01 it is important that we move to action behind tropical storm Beth is another system and hence this is our new reality we have heard this morning from Vanessa we've heard from the economists we've heard from the President of Niger and everyone has spoken truth with feeling with clarity and Emmanuel I've left you for last because privately I call this the how dare you Summit how dare you how dare you upset the order how dare you step out of your crease 3:00 and summon us all to this inflection moment that will determine whether we will have the capacity and the will to bring peace and scope to the problem I can tell you that there has been movement yes nine months ago no one was speaking about natural disaster clauses now we have people wanting to recognize the wisdom of it because countries do need to pause debt payments if they are going to house and feed people who are victims of a climate crisis doesn't quite work as well for those who have to move people who are suffering from drought as the president of Malawi has had to do so we need to perfect it 4:00 nine months ago no one was talking about multilateral Development Bank reform at scale and Ajay the World Bank was not as forceful in its commitment to the crisis of climate as it is now and we wish you all the best because in your hands lies the need for peace and scope nine months ago we were not prepared to discuss issues of debt and crystallina where no one else was stepping up during the pandemic yes you led the way recognizing that your duty was not only to deal with the symptoms of the balance of payments problems but to go back to the treaty and it's 5:00 underlying objective of securing growth and macro and financial and economic stability simply to Mark a card for progress as we heard from Vanessa what is required of us now is absolute transformation and not reform of our institutions and that transformation is required because while the world knew since the 1890s that we were facing the warming of the climate we chose not to heed the advice of scientists and that which could have been done in more than a century is now being reduced to be done in less than a decade and Secretary General 6:02 my heart bleeds for you because yours has been almost that constant voice in the wilderness but I say to you that it has not been in vain as you heard from president macron this morning there is now the beginning of the understanding that poverty and climate cannot be separated the education and claim it cannot be separated and later today we will go into the details of what that action must look like much of which we have put in the Bridgestone initiative not because we believe we have the answers alone but simply because we had the will to pull people together and say let us discuss these issues and let us make enough noise consistently to command the 7:01 attention of those who must speak and who must act I asked us today not to leave Paris without understanding that the bolstering of the political ambition that is required must secure transformation and not reform and I ask us to ensure that those of us who are heads of government and heads of state recognize that the world cannot continue in the shadow of an all-imperial order that does not see countries does not feel countries does not hear countries and worst does not see feel or hear people I ask us today to recognize that we cannot come to Paris but let our directors go back to the IMF or the World Bank and it be business as usual they do not act in their own interests they act on 8:00 behalf of our sovereign states and that is why we speak not only to the need for money we speak to the need for the reform of the governance systems because when these institutions were founded our countries did not exist and we speak for a complete transformation of securing the sources of capital as unpopular as it might be to voice it we do not ask for the bankruptcy of private companies that's not our wish but we do ask everybody to share the burden so that we can share the bounty and it therefore means that simply relying and holding only governments accountable has run its course and what is necessary now is for us to bring to the table also multinational corporations whose balance sheets dwarf 9:00 more than two-thirds of the world States that is the world we have created out of the last century and if we don't recognize that there cannot be left out of the equation I'm coming if they don't recognize that we cannot they cannot be left out of the equation then we have no desire to solve the problem and we thank philanthropy for what they do but it can only be what they like it has to be what the world needs and I hope that we leave Paris therefore not only secure in our determination to protect the planet to protect the biodiversity to protect people but to recognize that if we do not act today at scale with peace we will not be able to get there in time 10:00 to save more people let us as the representatives of our people at this most unique time in the history of civilization not only do the right thing but do it in time and do it for the right reasons we will have more time in the next day and a half to discuss the details but my please simply know is to step up the pace and let's get going thank you [Applause] Comments @SheziEntertainment 1 year ago Thank You Barbados for giving us such a brilliant leader, I am South African but when I see PM Mottley I know the sense has come and true leadership that will speak for all people has come. A selfless leader who speaks truth to power and ensures the climate crisis is well articulated and seen. TPB: WELL SAID ... I AGREE!

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