272. COP29 Live: From Call to Action with Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy
Outrage + Optimism
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Recorded Live at the UK COP Pavilion and moderated by Tom, ‘From Call to Action: the Bridgetown Initiative and delivering Global Financial System Reform’ is an inspiring conversation between Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and Foreign Secretary, UK, David Lammy.
Mia Mottley called the world to action when she released the initial Bridgetown Initiative at UNGA in 2022. Now in its third iteration, the Bridgetown Initiative brings together an ambitious and holistic set of calls for reforms to make the Global Financial System more inclusive, more shock-responsive, and better scaled to meet the financing challenges and needs for developing countries.
The UK is ready to stand up to face those challenges head-on. As a G7 country with the largest sustainable financial centre in the world, a track-record of delivering financial innovations and influencing the global debate, a key voice in the governance of the System, the UK has a strong track-record and platform to deliver.
And deliver we must: the global financial system needs to deliver a fairer deal for developing countries.
This conversation is a frank discussion between two leading voices to understand the problems, identify solutions, and drive reforms to create a world free of poverty on a liveable planet.
Huge thanks goes to UK COP Pavilion for allowing us to use their audio recording of this conversation. To watch more live events from COP 29 make sure to follow their YouTube channel here
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The Honourable Mia Mottley, SC, MP, Prime Minister of Barbados
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| 0:00.0 | COP 29 is a |
| 0:07.0 | Mark, pivotal, chef, from dialogue to the size of the passion. |
| 0:12.2 | Hi everyone. |
| 0:14.2 | So I am here at COP 29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. |
| 0:19.3 | Sadly, not with Paul and Christiana, but have been pretty impressed |
| 0:24.4 | by the scale of this event. I'm standing at the back of the plenary hall currently listening |
| 0:29.4 | to statements from world leaders. And it's been, as it always is, at these things, an impressive |
| 0:34.9 | and pretty emotional array of world leaders standing up from Ghana and Bosnia, |
| 0:41.1 | Herzegovina, and a range of other countries around the world, |
| 0:43.9 | just really calling for meaningful and comprehensive action. |
| 0:47.2 | Earlier today, we heard from Antonio Gutera, who reminded us that the clock is ticking. |
| 0:52.3 | We heard from the president of Azerbaijan who described |
| 0:55.7 | fossil fuels as a gift from God. Right now we have the president of Mongolia speaking. I'm going to |
| 1:02.3 | continue this note outside. I don't want to do it here while the leaders are speaking. |
| 1:09.4 | Okay, so I'm now back in the main concourse plenary area that exists |
| 1:13.4 | funneling tens of thousands of people from different sides of this conference center |
| 1:18.0 | to come together. |
| 1:19.8 | This is the first day of the World Leader Summit. |
| 1:22.4 | This will go on today and tomorrow, and then we'll go more into the details and negotiations. |
| 1:26.2 | It's been an interesting cop so far. The opening announced the finalization of Article 6, which is the provision |
| 1:33.5 | inside the Paris Agreement, the last remaining negotiation track to look at the formulation of |
| 1:38.1 | a carbon market. We're a long way from a functioning carbon market, but it's been a big step. |
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