NewsNetworkToday: ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES: COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE; LOW-LYING ISLANDS (UNEP) (TV MALDIVES) (UNTV)

NewsNetworkToday: 10 December 2009 - (UNEP) - (UNTV) - (TV MALDIVES) - Few leaders have gone as far as Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed to draw the worlds attention to the dangers of climate change. The two thousand Indian Ocean islands that make up the Maldives lie just 1.5 meters above sea level, and the President says a number of islanders are already being forced from their homes because of rising sea levels. Before the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, Nasheed convened an ...
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