"To ask us (Barbados) to continue carrying the battle against the backdrop of the (COVID-19) pandemic and not having contributed to the crisis to greenhouse gases is really unacceptable. We can't fight the pandemic or climate crisis from a national perspective. All of us have to cooperate globally, or we're not going to win this battle."
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Mia Mottley (2021) cited in: "Prime Minister of Barbados discusses ongoing global climate crisis with Emory community" in The Emory Wheel, 9 December 2021.
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