Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has told world leaders gathered at the climate conference in Egypt: 'We know what it is to remove slavery from our civilisation, to find a vaccine within two years for a pandemic, to put a man on the moon', but that when it came to the climate crisis, we needed to understand why we were not moving any further.
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Speaking at Cop27, she said 'the simple political will' needed 'to make a definable difference ... seems still not to be capable of being produced'.

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