FILE - Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, speaks at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 8, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The World Bank meetings were supposed to be a first step in a new era of affordable loans for developing nations hard hit by climate change like Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s Barbados, one of many Caribbean islands battered by worsening hurricanes. But if this was a new era, the World Bank meetings that closed Sunday left Mottley feeling much like she did in the old one. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) FILE PHOTO
