Maldives Considers Investment Fund for Buying Dry Land if Seas Rise. By Andrew C. Revkin, NYTimes, November 11, 2008. "The president-elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, plans to establish an investment fund so it can buy a haven for its citizens should global warming raise sea levels at a dangerous pace... The country was one of the founding members of the Alliance of Small Island States, which since 1992 has pressed the world's industrialized countries to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to rising temperatures. The Maldives is particularly vulnerable to flooding because its population has surged to nearly 400,000 from 200,000 in 20 years. Malé, the crowded one-square-mile capital, is ringed by sea walls, built with assistance from Japan."
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