All articles for the topic: Maldives

Mitigation: The Maldives has unconditionally committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 10% from their business as usual scenario by 2030. Conditionally, with external technical and financial support, this reduction could be increased up to 24%. Mitigation activities will focus on energy (generation and efficiency), transportation, and waste management. Adaptation: Given its vulnerability to climate change adaptation is a national priority for the Maldives. The Maldives adaptation priorities include: food security (through insurance, food storage, alternative technologies, and market mechanisms), infrastructure resilience (through improvements to existing infrastructure and integrating climate change planning into future infrastructure projects), public health (through further diseases vector monitoring and planning), enhanced water security (through desalination and improved management), coastal protection (through further investment and specific activities like land elevation and reclamation), safeguarding coral reefs and associated biodiversity (through improved management and reduced pollution), tourism (through insurance and tourism taxes), fisheries (through diversification, insurance, and encouraging the use of new techniques), and early warning and systematic observation (through strengthening the meteorological network, improving forecasting, and developing management techniques). Financing, governance, and capacity building, are critical needs and challenges across all these adaptation objectives. International Climate and Environmental Commitments: The Paris Agreement (Party), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Party), Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Party), United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Party), Convention on Biological Diversity (Party), Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (Party), Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Not Party)