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The Solomon Islands offer a valuable window into the effects of sea-level rise at a scale the rest of the world will experience before long.
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(FINANCIAL TIMES) - It was a climate summit that made Mohamed Nasheed a star. Ahead of the UN's annual COP conference in Copenhagen in 2009, the president of the Maldives grabbed headlines worldwide by chairing an underwater Cabinet meeting, with ministers attending in scuba gear.
The stunt was intended to highlight the serious danger that, if carbon emissions continued at the same rate, the Maldives' 1,000-plus atoll islands would be entirely submerged by a rising ocean.
