Mia Mottley Quotes

the world must claim ground, secure it and move forward. “We need collective partnerships. We need new voices to inspire and to influence.”

Let us choose to end climate change. We will achieve it. Human ingenuity will enable us to do so. But we cannot wait. Let us bring it forward.

Because it is the right thing to do - not just politically but morally,

We do not want that dreaded death sentence, and we have come here today to say, 'Try harder,'

Are we really going to leave Scotland without the commitment to ambition that is sorely needed to save lives and to save our planet? Or are we so blinded and hardened that we can no longer appreciate the cries of humanity?

even if for many we are invisible, we are not dispensable.

What will it take for us to get the mighty of the world to protect us against the existential threat to our survival?

Our world stands at a fork in the road; one no less significant than when the United Nations was formed in 1945. But then the majority of countries here did not exist, we exist now. The difference is we want to exist a 100 years from now,

Alongside new capital, innovative instruments, partnerships and new ways of working together are critical if we are to overcome the challenges posed by climate, pandemics and debt. These new, integrated, initiatives announced today are embodiment of what can come out of new cooperative ways of working together.

Our people are watching, and our people are taking note,

If it matters enough, we can choose to end climate change. Our only limits are the limits to our imagination. We achieve what we put our resources behind.

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.

I want to salute the King for having the courage to recognise this is a conversation that the time has come to have,

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision is merely passing time. But vision with action can change the world.

We are trespassing on ground that is best left in our history and not our future. And to this, we add the insidious threats of terrorism and, now, the existential threat of climate change,