What we can do to save the world’s smallest nations from climate change

Sep 14, 2020

An aerial view shows an atoll in the Maldives December 9, 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.REUTERS/Reinhard Krause (MALDIVES - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT TRAVEL) - GM1E5CE00F501

The world’s only atoll nations have built entire societies on the coral-and-sand rims of sunken volcanoes. Image: REUTERS/Reinhard Krause

Cassie Werber

Writer, Quartz Africa

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