Nasheed to represent Maldives at climate change conference
The former president will be the envoy of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
15 Nov 2018, 9:00 AM
Former president Mohamed Nasheed will be representing the Maldives at the COP24 Climate Change Conference in Poland next month.
Nasheed will be attending as an envoy of Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, the president-elect’s spokeswoman Mariya Ahmed Didi told the press Thursday in her daily briefing.
The former president brought the Maldives’ vulnerability to international attention with an underwater cabinet ahead of the Copenhagen summit in 2009, the lawmaker noted.
Nasheed became an icon of the climate justice movement for his advocacy at the summit, which was depicted in the award-winning documentary The Island President.
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