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For small island nations, climate change is not a threat. It's already here

An areal view shows a resort island in the Maldives December 14, 2009. Maldives has a population of some 400,000 islanders, whose livelihood from fishing and tourism is being hit by climate change. Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed said in November that 2 degrees Celsius warming would risk swamping the sand-rimmed coral atolls and islets, dotted with palm trees and mangrove clumps, that form his small country.

Island countries like the Maldives are the canaries in the climate change coal mine. Image: REUTERS/Reinhard Krause

Hussain Rasheed Hassan
Minister of Environment, Republic of Maldives
Valerie Cliff
Deputy Regional Director, UNDP in Asia and the Pacific
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