World’s first underwater Cabinet meeting on Saturday – The Worlds first under water cabinet meeting is being held in Maldives on the 17th of October, 2009. All the ministers participating in the under water cabinet meeting have been taking Diving training with the help of Divers Association Maldives (DAM). Every minister participating in this event will be awarded the diving certification at the end of the session.
The underwater meeting is part of a wider campaign by international environmental NGO 350.org. 350.org is calling on political leaders to commit to deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at Copenhagen. The world’s top climatologists, such as James Hansen of the NASA/Goddard Institute, caution that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide must return to the safe threshold of 350 parts per million if catastrophic global warming is to be avoided. Levels currently stand at 385ppm.
I congratulate the Government of Maldives for taking this adventurous step
