Poverty and inequality in Maldives 2022
In the past two decades, Maldives has achieved remarkable economic progress and reductions in poverty. However, the country faces high exposure to global risks including an . existential threat of rising
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Climate Sans Borders
As the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen scheduled in December approaches, the debate over responsibility for the danger we have created is heating up. The industrialised world is urging developing nations such as China and India to accept limits on carbon-dioxide emission as a pre-condition for their own emissions-reduction plan.
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Refugees Join List of Climate-Change Issues
With their boundless vistas of turquoise water framed by swaying coconut palms, the Carteret Islands northeast of the Papua New Guinea mainland might seem the idyllic spot to be a castaway. Stuart Beck, the permanent representative for Palau at the United Nations, in 2005.
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Paradise lost: Islanders prepare for the flood
Are the Maldives doomed to disappear beneath the waves, or can a last ditch effort hold back rising sea levels?
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In search of shelter: mapping the effects of climate change on human migration and displacement
This report explores how environmental shocks and stresses, especially those related to climate change, can push people to leave their homes in search of
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Tsunami Aid Often Bypassed Conflict Victims - Report
Distribution of billions of dollars in aid after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami often ignored victims of conflicts raging in Sri Lanka and Indonesia at the time, a report on the lessons of the disaster said on Friday.
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Zero-carbon nation
Maldives to spend US $1,100 million THE Maldives has decided to de-carbonize itself by giving up fossil fuels and switching completely to renewable energy. President Mohamed Nasheed on March 16 said US $110 million would be spent every year for the next one decade to eliminate fossil fuel use. As per the plan, 155 large wind turbines, half-a-kilometre of solar roof panels and a biomass
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Barun Roy: 40 yrs to doom?
Will Maldives cease to exist, engulfed by seas rising from the effects of global warming? Barun Roy / New Delhi April 9, 2009, 0:17 IST
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Low genetic differentiation across three major ocean populations of the Whale Shark, Rhincodon typus
<p>Whale sharks are a declining species for which little biological data is available. While these animals are protected in many parts of their range, they are fished legally and illegally in some countries.
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The coming flood of people (Editorial)
Close your eyes. Picture white sands and turquoise waters, rows of palm trees cocooning you under the balmy sun. Then, imagine this pristine picture wiped away not simply from your mind, but from reality. The Maldives face an actual and potent risk of extinction.
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President Mohamed Nasheed has announced the Governments intention to make the Maldives the worlds first carbon neutral country
He made the announcement after the special screening of the new climate change film, The Age of Stupid. The screening of the film was held on Monday night at Theemuge