Maldives Underwater Cabinet Meeting for 350
On Saturday, 17 October, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, and his ministers held an official cabinet meeting in an unusual location – underwater. The Maldives government held the first ever official meeting underwater as part of an international movement organized by 350.org to draw global attention to the pressing issue of climate change. To call attention to their country’s plight as a nation already feeling the effects of climate change, ministers gather to ratify a statement calling for rapid greenhouse gas reductions. To communicate, they used hand signals and wrote on slates. The statement will be presented at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen this December.
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