13 November 2007
Report: Ayya
The summit organized by Maldives on climate change participated by small island nations will commence today at Dharubaaruge. The summit named Human Dimensions of Global Climate Change is aimed at bringing the effects of climate change to world center stage.
The summit aimed at achieving 3 different objectives, is participated by Swiss Agency for Development Corporation, Center for International Law, Diplo Foundation and Maldives.
Ministry of Environment, Energy and Water reveals the main objectives of the summit are to pass the resolution of the small island states on global climate change and to agree and on a common agenda by the small island states before the Bali summit scheduled from 3 to 14 December 2007.
The Male’ summit will have an agenda dealing with many effects of climate change on human beings and especially environmental human rights.
A safe environment is the most important human right. The right to a safe environment is a prerequisite for sustainable development.
Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our time. Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our growing vulnerability to climate change. Climate change impacts range from affecting agriculture, further endangering food security, sea-level rise and the accelerated erosion of coastal zones, increasing intensity of natural disasters, species extinction and the spread of vector-borne diseases.
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