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Zero: The Climate Race
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Mia Motley and the Global Financial Architecture for the Climate
Avinash: I left Barbados when I was seven years old but it left a lasting impression on me. My dad was a development economist and he helped write the sanctions against South Africa, that excited me so I wanted to be a development economist. Now Mia Motley is the primary star of Barbados and has become a star in climate circles as a voice giving importance to finance. She gave this defining speech at both COP26 in Glasgow and then COP27 in Shermel Shaken Egypt about the vulnerability of small island states to climate change. Avinash: When you see the satellite pictures these hurricanes are bigger than the entire chain of islands and it crushes Dominica. They lose
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