Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has challenged the world to reinvent the international order in a bid to salvage small island states that are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, a war they did not start.

“An international order that is not inclusive, or strongly rooted in fairness and moral legitimacy will fail to halt and reverse climate change’’, Mottley said while delivering the prestigious 16th Raúl Prebisch Lecture at the United Nations’ European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mottley is the first woman to lead the island nation and the second woman to deliver the lecture established in 1982 to honour Argentine economist Raúl Prebisch, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) founding Secretary-General.

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