Maldives launches first biennial update report to UNFCCC

Minister of Environment Dr Hussain Rasheed Hassan on Thursday, launched the Maldives' First Biennial Update Report (BUR) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

"Maldives is among the most vulnerable and least defensible countries to the projected impacts of climate change. Climate change is therefore, a critical threat to the very existence of our island nation", said the minister.