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The Maldives Aims to Become First Carbon-Neutral Nation

The Maldives renewable energy plan aims to shift to 100% renewables and become a carbon-neutral nation by 2029, addressing sea level rise.

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Last year, President Mohamed Nasheed announced that his country would look to buy land for Maldivians to resettle on when sea levels rose and caused the low-lying islands to be uninhabitable. That plan proved too expensive, but Nasheed has now announced a $1.1 billion plan that will shift the Maldives entirely to renewable energy over the next ten years, making it the world’s first carbon-neutral nation. The archipelago Indian Ocean nation consists of almost of 1,200 islands, of which only about 250 are inhabited.

None of the coral islands measures more than 1.8 metres (six feet) above sea level, making the country vulnerable to a rise in sea levels associated with global warming [

BBC]. Scientists at a meeting in Copenhagen last week predicted that glaciers and ice sheets melting as a result of global warming could boost the level of the world's oceans by as much as a metre ...

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