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When Worlds Collide #120: Asia’s smallest state Maldives faces big climate threats
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 5 September 2014 Small island nations are in focus this week, as well as throughout this year. The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Communicating Development, Disaster, Disaster Communication, Energy Conservation, Environment, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Humanitarianism, Indian Ocean, Power & Energy, South Asia, Sustainable Development
Tagged Ali Rilwan, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bluepeace, Carbon Neutral Plan, climate adaptation, Coral reefs, ecosystem-based adaptation, Good governance, Hulhumalé, International Year of Small Island Developing States, Malé, Maldives, Mauritius, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President Mohamed Nasheed, Samoa, sea level rise, Seychelles, SIDS, Singapore, South Asia, Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), World Bank
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When Worlds Collide #85: Climate Change – Big picture and small pixels
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 29 September 2013 The UN climate panel (IPCC) reconfirms that accelerated climate change is happening without any doubt. In its latest assessment report, released in Stockholm this … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Communicating Development, Disaster Communication, Documentary Film, Documentary films, Environment, Environmental policy, Film making, South Asia, Television
Tagged Bernadette Masianini of Fiji, climate skeptics, glacial lakes, global temperatures, greenhouse gases, Himalayan glaciers, ICIMOD, Indian Ocean, IPCC, IPCC AR5, IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, Kiribati, Mrs Saipolua, Nepal, oceans have acidified, Pacific Ocean, polar ice and glaciers melt, President Mohamed Nasheed, sea level, sea level rise, Tarzie Vittachi, The Maldives, Tradkarding glacier, Tsho Rolpa glacial lake, UN climate panel, UNEP, Voices from the Waves (2002)
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When Worlds Collide, by Nalaka Gunawardene 