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New climate change models for Maldives predict rising sea temperatures

Source(s): Minivan News
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Minivan News reported that "The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) has completed a nine-month research into developing a model interpreting the future climatic change scenarios for the Maldives that can provide projections which can referred during national and local development planning."

The project is part of a government initiative named "Integrating Climate Change Risks into Resilient Island Planing in the Maldives", 2010- 2014, which is aiming "to ensure that climate change risks are integrated into resilient island planning and that governments and communities are able to prioritize and implement climate change adaptation".

UNDP, a large contributor to the project, stated that the most important cause of increasing vulnerability to climate change in the Maldives is the "absence of systematic adaptation planning and practice".

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Themes Climate change Early warning Risk identification and assessment Governance Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Country and region Maldives
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