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Monday, October 19, 2009
Chris Gray
The government of the Maldives has held an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the threat of rising sea levels to the islands.
President Mohamed Nasheed and his cabinet spent an hour on the seabed on Saturday, communicating with hand signals, and used a white board to sign a document calling for global cuts in carbon emissions.
He warned that if the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen this December did not succeed it would threaten the existence of the islands, which rely heavily on tourism.
"We're now actually trying to send our message, let the world know what is happening, and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change is not checked," President Nasheed said.
The Copenhagen summit has been called to create a new agreement to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
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