The Maldives government puts a spot to the climate change by making the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting. The Indian Ocean politicians wore the scuba gear to catch the attention of December’s UN climate change conference which will held in Copenhagen. This UN climate change conference will discuss a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which controlled carbon emissions.
The president Mohammed Nasheed realized that the raising sea levels will lead to submerging the islands and the inhabitants of his country are about 350,000. This cabinet meeting lasted for 30 minutes under six meters below the sea level. To prepare for this underwater meeting, the cabinets took lessons of diving except the president and the defense minister. During this meeting, the cabinet used the hand signals and the white boards to communicate with each other.
All the cabinet members attended this meeting except two for their medical condition and another was abroad. The goal of this underwater meeting to warns the world to the danger of the climate change. They wanted all the world leader to put an end for the dangerous emissions. The president of Maldives prepared a plan to make his country the world’s first carbon neutral in a decade. He also promised that he will afford his people a new homeland if the islands has been submerged.
source:AP
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