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Mohamed Nasheed — Born 1967
There is No Plan B,
Because There's No Planet B
Mr Nasheed was the president of
the Maldives from 2008 to 2012.
The Maldive Islands are a group of around 1,200 coral atolls
located 400 miles or 645 kilometers southwest of Sri Lanka.
Here is the map:
Map Location of the Maldives
Click to view the world map
None of the coral atolls, which
are the tips of an ancient volcanic mountain range, sticks
out more
than 6 feet or 1.8 meters above sea level.
Which makes climate change an
interesting topic. A sea level rise of even two feet or half
a meter would make much of the Maldives uninhabitable.
Why should you care?
But the Maldives is no special case; simply
the canary in the world's coal mine.
Mohamed
Nasheed, 2009
The Maldives and Climate Change
On June 3, 2009,
Ahmed Khaleel, the
permanent representative of the Republic of Maldives to the
United Nations, addressed the United Nations General
Assembly.
Go here to read his speech
Climate Change Knows No Borders.
On September 22, 2009, Mohamed Nasheed addressed the opening
plenary session of the UN Summit on Climate Change.
Go here to read his speech
Jump First and Jump Far on Climate
Change.
On October 17, 2009, Mohamed Nasheed chaired the world's
first ever underwater cabinet meeting. In this meeting, the
President, Vice President, and the Cabinet signed a
declaration calling for concerted global action on climate
change in general, and for rapid greenhouse gas reductions
in particular.
Maldives
Underwater Cabinet Meeting Calls on All Nations
to Cut Carbon Emissions
Department of Information,
Republic of Maldives
Mohamed Nasheed
Post Presidency
On February 7, 2012, President
Mohamed Nasheed resigned. He later said that he was forced
by his political opposition to do so.
And here are two more maps of
the beautiful Maldives:
Maldive Islands 2009
Maldives 2009
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