Women Are Leading The Fight To Stop Climate Change

Source: BQ
Author: John Ainger

Her Bridgetown Initiative -- a blueprint to overhaul the global financial system to help heavily-indebted climate-vulnerable countries -- was forged in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017. After watching the category 5 storm ravage the neighboring island of Dominica, Mottley and her college buddy Avinash Persaud, a development economist, set about drawing up a plan to mitigate the impacts of future storms fueled by global warming.