The Maldives emit so little CO2, it rounds down to 0% out of the world's total.

Yet, the madlives is one of the world's most vulnerable nations to global warming. If sea levels raise less than a meter, the whole country will be inhabitable.

So in 2009, the President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed,  announced its grand plan to go carbon-neutral within a decade.

Nasheed and British climate change experts have developed a radical carbon-neutrality plan that will set measures to eliminate fossil fuel use on the Maldive archipelago by 2020.

They will utilize a new renewable electricity generation and a transmission infrastructure with 155 large wind turbines, half a square kilometre of rooftop solar panels, and a biomass plant burning coconut husks. Battery banks would provide back-up storage for when neither wind nor solar energy is available.

The Maldives are taking a stand against global warming instead of seeking refuge someplace else setting a laudable example to the world on how to tackle climate change.

If a developing nation like the Maldives can achieve this goal, then what excuse can developed countries give for not doing the same.

The carbon-neutral package will cost about $110 a year for years, but it will pay itself quickly, because the Maldives no longer need to import oil.

I am always cheering for the Maldives in their ambitious, milestone measures to combat global warming. I hope the Maldives succeed and awe the world.

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(This was an old post that I uploaded on ecogeneration.org last year....an update post on current enviornmental policies of the Maldives will be uploaded soon)