Sentences with phrase «whose small island nation»

President Mohammed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives, whose small island nation is existentially threatened by rising sea levles caused by climate change, has called on the world to set a target of returning the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere to 350

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As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

What makes this process complicated is that you have small island nations who are about to disappear because of sea level rise, you have oil producers who are legitimately concerned about the future of their economy, you have major industrialized nations who are afraid they will lose jobs, and you have major developing countries whose overriding concern is economic growth and poverty eradication.