Posted on October 3, 2007 in Latest News
Island nations have become extremely vulnerable to the perils of climatic changes. With global warming, there is potential for significant increase in the sea levels which might engulf these small islands with ease.
At its first climate summit last week, United Nations aimed to create of momentum for the Annual Climate Treaty conference to be held in Bali, Indonesia this December.
Foreign Minister of Maldives, Abdalla Shahid, told the U.N. General Assembly, “The international community has convened numerous conferences and summits at which it has agreed on wide-ranging plans and programs of action. However … all too often the reality of implementation has failed to match the ambitious rhetoric.”
Developed countries like Europe, Japan, USA and others are planning to initiate talks for an agreement promising reduction of emissions succeeding the Kyoto Protocol in 2012. The dangerous emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly Carbon Dioxide emission in excess causes warmer temperatures. The warm temperature results in melting of the glaciers and this causes an increase in the sea levels.
This would pose a fatal threat to islands like Maldives, St.Kitts, Dominica, Tonga that are barely 6-7 feet above the sea level.
On Tuesday’s General Assembly session, Timothy Harris, Foreign Minister of the Caribbean Island St.Kitts and Nevis also affirmed,
“We view associated problems of high frequency of abnormal climate, sea level rise, global warming and coastal degradation as matters affecting the economic and environmental security of all small island states.”
The Tuesday’s session thus, sought to put new urgency into global talks to reduce global-warming emissions securing the man and material of the Island nations.
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