Global Warming’s Effect on

Maldives
Prepared By
Nitin Jada
10MBA02
Class: B
Location
 Introduction
• The Maldives is a small nation
with a spreaded environment
and a spreaded democracy.
• The Maldives are comprised of
nearly 1,200 islands and atolls in
the Indian Ocean
• The effects of global warming on
the Maldives could create a
unstable situation within the
country. 
 PAST…
• In 1987, unusually high tides swept over the
country and inundated the capital city, Male'.
• The Asian tsunami of December 26, 2004 killed
82 people, displaced an additional 12,000 and
caused extensive damage to the country's
important tourism industry.
• The tsunami inflicted $375 million in overall
damages, $100 million of which included
damages to resorts. As a result, the Maldives'
GDP contracted by 3.6 percent in 2005
 REASON
• Global Warming.
All of the islands of the Maldives are extremely
sensitive to rising ocean levels. Indeed, the country's
highest point is only 8 feet above sea level..

• Along with rising sea levels, increased beach erosion,

more powerful storms, higher storm surges, and
threats to biodiversity are among the major
threatens to the Maldives due to climate change
over the coming decades
 EFFECTS
• Rising ocean levels threaten the entire
existence of the Maldives. In turn, the ocean
threatens the habitat of every human, plant,
and land animal in the country.

• Humans could be easily relocated to other

neighboring countries, but preventing bio-
diversity and species loss would be difficult.
• Cataloging each animal and plant in the country
would be costly and time-consuming.
Furthermore, introducing those plants and
animals to a new ecosystem could also be
problematic and upset the natural balance of that
ecosystem.

• The newly-introduced plants and animals could

become invasive or the domestic plants and
animals could eradicate those "rescued" from the
sinking Maldives.
 Future
• The Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) estimates
that average global sea levels will
rise between 0.09m and 0.37m
per year.
• Human-induced global warming is
causing glaciers and polar ice- caps
to melt, leading to a rise in ocean
levels. If ocean levels rose enough,
the entire country will disappear
under water in next few years.
Thank You…
To participate to reduce global warming