Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley Recognized as Influential Climate Leader by Time

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, has been named among the Time 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business for 2023.

The 100 list comprises climate change catalysts, leaders, titans, innovators and defenders.

Mottley is included in the final category as the head of a small island developing state, who has spoken about the disproportionate impact faced by these nations, but largely caused by the practices of more developed countries.

She has received global recognition for the Bridgetown Initiative. Proposed in 2022, it calls for urgent reform of global financial companies to help climate-vulnerable countries which cannot adopt new debt. This access to special financing would allow them recover in the event of a natural disaster.

Mottley has emerged as a regional advocate for climate change and has taken the message from the Caribbean to The Summit For A New Global Financial Pact, which starts in Paris, France, across Europe, and most recently to the Africa Investment Forum.

The full list:

Catalysts: Billie Eilish, Stella McCartney, Coldplay, Beth Ford, Trista Patterson, Matti Lehmus, Sebastião Salgado, Gloria Fluxà Thienemann, MrBeast, Francis Kéré, Michael Cannon-Brookes, Danielle Fugere, Ezgi Barcenas, Esther An, Geeta Aiyer, Rajiv J. Shah, Miranda Ballentine, William McDonough, James Cameron and Lisa Ekstrand.

Leaders: Roxanne Brown, Sultan Al Jaber, Adam Gardner, Fatih Birol, John Kerry, Bill Gates, Paul Dickinson, Scott Wiener, Annette Clayton, Lucie Pinson, María Mendiluce, Naomi Oreskes, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, Jennifer Morris, Peter Bakker, Yet-Ming Chiang, Jennifer Wilcox, Jesper Brodin, Ana Unruh Cohen and Suzanne DiBianca.

Titans: Ajay Banga, Robin Zeng, Kara Hurst, Stella Li, Rebecca Marmot, Ian Learmonth, Vincent Clerc, Anna Borg, Kathleen McLaughlin, Pascal Soriot, Christian Mumenthaler, Shemara Wikramanayake, Dan Ammann, Zhang Bo, Ignacio Galán, Martin Lundstedt, Jigar Shah, Wen Shugang, Rebecca Tinucci and Amit Kumar Sinha

Innovators: Mark van Nieuwland, Josh Tetrick, Peter Carlsson, Mateo Jaramillo, Edda Sif Pind Aradóttir, Jan Wurzbacher and Christoph Gebald, Manoj Sinha, Ken Logan, Miguel Torres Riera, Mina Hasman, Kidus Asfaw, Henrik Henriksson, Marcelo De Oliveira, Jennifer Holmgren, Stephane Germain, Val Miftakhov, Mark Herrema, Bhavish Aggarwal, Tamara Lundgren and Lauren Eatwell.

Defenders: Nemonte Nenquimo, Gim Huay Neo, Frans Timmermans, Mia Mottley, Lisa P. Jackson, Melinda French Gates, Marina Silva, Melissa Sims, Julia Olson, Mark Watts, Rachel L. Levine, Sharon Lavigne, William Ruto, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, M. Sanjayan, Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, Mafalda Duarte, Valérie Courtois, Seema Wadhwa and Wendy Huff. (SAT)