Covering Environment

Helping journalists in Maldives better report on urgent Environment and Climate issues

[Rae Munavvar @MunavvarRae]

It is always good to see human rights brought into the environment conversation. However, I would also point out that this is already a constitutional right in the Maldives - though what good that does to halt all the govt sanctioned degradation taking place, I don’t know.

[Zero Waste Asia @ZeroWasteAsia]

#FellowshipOpportunity Dear GAIA members & journalist friends in Southeast Asia: learn more about biodiversity and how Zero Waste and our waste workers/pickers are the unsung heroes of biodiversity. Indeed, it’s time we highlight their significant contribution to the environment.

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

🌴 Happy #TropicsDay! 🌺

The #tropics host approximately 80% of the world's #biodiversity as well as much of its language and cultural diversity.

@UNESCO highlights the importance of these ecosystems #ForNature and for people.

#WeAreTheTropics

[Save the Beach @SavetheBeachVM]

Thanks @mvplusmedia for covering Waheed’s story. He’s one of the first residents of VM who started swimming in the area & is standing up to protect these last remaining natural beaches for his grandchildren, to let them be able to use the beach as his children have. @MaleCitymv

[Stop Ecocide International @EcocideLaw]

Come listen to Save Maldives Campaign's environmental defender @HumayAG explain the link between ecocide, climate crisis & gender.
Join in and use the QnA time to present your organization and ask questions. https://t.co/06k9C3stoq #StopEcocide #Stockholm50

[Save the Beach @SavetheBeachVM]

We need these spaces for our health, well-being. Fiber working should only be done in places designed for such work, and hazardous waste contained and managed.
So pls do come, and bring along your friends and let’s do what we love to do on weekends, let’s Moodhu 🏝 🏊🏾 💦☀️

[Save the Beach @SavetheBeachVM]

Hello beach lovers👋🏽 The picnic protest continues on Villimale’ east beach, on Friday & Saturday (13 & 14 May) 12pm onwards. Pls come and join us.
We aim to show the govt the beach is a much loved picnic beach that doesn’t deserve to be trashed by hazardous boat building waste⚠️

[Save the Beach @SavetheBeachVM]

Everything you need to know about *the destruction happening on one of the last remaining natural beaches in Male’ city* - A Thread 🧵
On the afternoon of March 16th 2022, we discovered that a large patch of coastal vegetation on the East beach of Villimale’ had been cleared out.

[Maldives Resilient Reefs @ResilientReefs]

We have recorded over 140 species of fish in Maldives seagrass meadows, including commercially important species like grouper, snapper & emperor. Up to 80% of them were juveniles!
🐟
Let’s make sure we #ProtectMaldivesSeagrass #WorldSeagrassDay

[#SaveMaldives Campaign @SaveMaldivesMV]

Look what Google Map shows up!
As #MaldivesAtCOP26 deceptively chases #ParisAgreement funds, we are daily reminded of the self-inflicted loss & damage for which @governmentmv seeks "adaptation" funds.
#COP26 a global north "greenwash festival" with global south enablers! @theGCF

[Natasha @NatashaAishat]

MVR 6,125,395.55 for the month of August from B atoll collected as Green tax.Nothing spent on Baa. Mangroves, reefs not preserved. While still Goidhoo, Fulhadhoo, Fehendhoo doesn't have proper medical centers , Schools, shame on us when we say its better in baa @governmentmv

[Elena Sánchez Nicolás @Sanchelen]

Responding to the climate challenge is not an ecological whim, but increasingly a condition of survival #COP26
https://t.co/LEqLZO0IzB

[Clover Hogan @cloverhogan]

I took the main stage at #COP26 to share my open, honest feelings. I felt physically and emotionally exhausted. Yet more hopeful at 22 than I was at 16, when I attended COP21. Not because of the so-called “leaders” behind closed doors - but because of the people in the streets.

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

The first draft of the #COP26 agreement text has been revealed, and contains no mention of the need to end fossil fuel emissions - critical to keep global temperatures under 1.5c.

Unacceptable.

https://t.co/NuawlMf0gn

#RealZero

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

Anyone who cares about a livable planet must always watch the actions of world leaders. Their words are worthless.

[nidsMV @MvNids]

Time for #ClimateAction
Are you in?
We are in to transitioning energy sources at Nadella Island Waste Management to solar energy with assistance from @UNDPMaldives @GEF_SGP
Our energy audit report says it’s doable, achievable to go net zero, check out the findings 🔽
#COP26

[Dis.Hon. Afrah Ismail @iharfa]

The world must look closely at the actions that the government of #Maldives has taken and has been taking with the donor finance it has received.

Don't just blindly listen and clap at what they feed their international media pals.

#COP26 #TogetherForOurPlanet #MaldivesAtCOP26

[Alexandria Villaseñor @AlexandriaV2005]

Did it hurt? When world leaders convened at #COP26 in Glasgow, and in their opening speeches not one of them spoke of phasing out fossil fuels?

[Rae Munavvar @MunavvarRae]

New course by on coral reefs, their importance and how to look after them, conducted in DHIVEHI & TOTALLY FREE!
More info👇🏾
https://t.co/aPyIrHqsfY
This is the 1st of an edu-series by IOI on ocean governance related to Maldives. No formal prev education required.
Pls share!