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 sea levels. A unique feature of Maldives is the economic enclaves that encourage industry and international tourism. The general …
Maldives, threatened by global warming, has appealed to the US to back the Kyoto Protocol. "We have to strive to point out the problems that are associated with climate change and the responsibilities we feel lie with countries such as the US,' said Ismail Shafeeu, the country's minister of environment. …
Released barely three months ago, the solar power pack, produced by Solardyne Corporation, a private corporation, and weighing less than 11 kilogrammes provides the users with 120 watt-hour power a day. It has multiple uses and can be operated and transported by a single person says a report on the …
Global warming literally threatens to swallow the small archipelago in the Indian Ocean and the worries are begin to show upon the people. In his recent state visit to India, Maldives president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom expressed deep concern over the threat to Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. India has …
Tourism plays an important role in the economies of both Goa and the Maldives. For the Maldives, it provides 17 percent of the gross domestic product, over 25 percent of government revenue and around 60 percent of the foreign exchange earnings; and for Goa, it generates 13.7 percent of the …
the Maldives may soon disappear from the global map due to the rise in the sea level of the Indian Ocean. Researchers at the Antarctic Research Centre in Hobart, Australia say that the sea level has risen by 3.55 cm during the last 25 years. If the Ocean rises by …
Twenty seven nation-members of the World Tourism Organisation in the Asia-Pacific region and several other government and non-governmental bodies ratified the Male Declaration at the Asia Pacific Tourism Minister's Conference in Maldives recently. The participants pledged to foster awareness for environmental ethics among consumers, conservation and sustainable use of natural …
By the end of the next century, the tiny island nation of Maldives could simply disappear under the sea. An expected increase of 50 cm in the sea level would swallow the island nation sometime in the next century. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there could be …
Tourism is dealing a body blow to the Maldivian government's waste management, as it leads to piling up of garbage every year. LTU, a Germah airline, has offered help in an innovative way. As passengers arrive in the Maldives, it issues them 30 litre garbage bags. The waste that the …
Fisherfolk in the Maldives are worried that a recent govetnment decision to allow foreign vessels to operate 120-68 km from the countrys shoreline will rob them of tliew livelihood, as hi-jech ships capable of sinking thousands of fishing lines into the ocean at one time will eat up the fish …
THE idyllic Maldive islands face a threat from an old enemy and friend -- the sea. Despite repeated calls for technological and financial support to keep them afloat, at various fora like the UN's Special Debate on Environment and Development in 1987 or the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro …
NOW THAT Hiroshi Nakajima has been confirmed as director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), at the organisation's annual general assembly held in early May, he has to start setting his house in order -- a formidable task by all accounts. At the WHO annual general assembly, 93 countries voted …
HERE IS a country that can proudly boast that it has no industrial pollution. Though mainly dependent on fisheries and tourism, land reclamation, coral and sand mining and sewage dumping is posing nascent problems in Maldives. But Hassan Shakeel of the ministry of fisheries and agriculture says, "These activities have …
