Maldives to cut net carbon emissions ‘100%’ by 2020, pledges president
31 Jan 2010, 6:55 PM
Mazin Rafeeq
The Maldives has informed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that it will reduce its net carbon emissions by 100% before 2020.
This is not a total reduction of emissions but rather a statement of carbon neutrality. The president’s pledge to the UNFCCC following the Copenhagen Accord is currently the most ambitious emissions reduction target to be submitted by any country.
Deputy Environment Minister Dr Mohamed Shareef acknowledged that the promise to reduce net emissions by 100% was misleading.
“That would seem that a country would not produce any CO2 at all. This is possible in the long term, but at a great cost,” he said.
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