The Maldives and the Impact of Expected Climatic Change: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No.104

The virtual certainty that predicted climatic changes, including the concomitant sea-level r1se, will profoundly affect low-lying islands was considered at the second meeting of National Focal Points on the development of an action plan for the South Asian Seas region, he 1 d in Bangkok, 7-11 December 1987. Therefore, the meeting recommended that "Maldives should be considered for a specific in-depth ease study analyzing the full ecological and socio-economic implications of expected climatic changes as well as the management and policy options available to mitigate or avoid the negative effects of these implications"