In recent years, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has emerged on the world scene as a fierce champion of global financial reform to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis. In an interview with Canada's National Observer, she unpacks what she hopes to see unfold in forthcoming negotiations.
A prominent developing-world leader on the issue of climate change said Monday that global taxes on the financial services, oil and gas, and shipping industries could drum up hundreds of billions of dollars for poorer countries to adapt and cope with global warming.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is welcoming a dozen leaders from across the Caribbean to Ottawa today, as part of a two-day summit aimed at forming closer ties with Canada.
Facing an audience packed with world leaders and finance officials in suits, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate silenced the room, then made everyone listen to some uncomfortable facts.
Heads of state, finance leaders and activists from around the world will converge in Paris this week to seek ways to overhaul the world's development banks — like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank — and help them weather a warmer and stormier world.
The prime minister of Barbados evoked a Jamaican reggae legend on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, as she described in stark terms the "triple crisis" in her region that's threatening the health and welfare of the entire Western Hemisphere.
Sometimes it's hard to realize that I am listening to world leaders in Glasgow, rather than some of my colleagues from my old Greenpeace days, writes Kairn Carrington.