“Mia Mottley is the first female Prime Minister of one of the smallest and most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, Barbados. She received widespread recognition at last year’s event because of her common-sense approach to climate change and her call to make international financial systems work for those most affected by the crisis. She called out Western nations for becoming richer yet being responsible for most of the world’s climate crises at the cost of poorer nations becoming the victims. Mottley has pushed Barbados to develop a bold plan to phase out fossil fuels by 2030. The annual climate change summit needs more women like her. So where are they? Gender inequality, combined with the climate crisis, threatens the health, income, family life, safety and financial security of women and girls around the world. Their voices are critical – they are the potential change-makers at all levels of climate action and decision-making.”