Mia Mottley: helping poorer nations fight climate change

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, is on a mission to fight
climate change through a radical scheme to reform the
international financial system.


Called the Bridgetown Initiative, her plan aims to transform
global institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank – freeing
up billions, maybe even trillions of dollars, for poorer
countries that are struggling to cope with the impacts of a
hotter planet.


Presenter Graihagh Jackson is joined by the BBC’s Climate Editor,
Justin Rowlatt, who interviewed Prime Minister Mottley at a
crucial climate finance summit in Paris. With time running out in
the battle to keep the world below the 1.5C warming threshold, we
find out more about her plan, how it works and the progress being
made.


Producers: Ben Cooper and Miho Tanaka Researcher: Octavia
Woodward Series Producer: Simon Watts Editor: China Collins Sound
Engineer: Tom Brignell Production Coordinators: Debbie Richford
and Sophie Hill