Climate Inaction Not an Option for Maldives at COP28

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Maldives' President Mohamed Muizzu delivers a speech in Malé on October 2, 2023. © 2023 Mohamed Afrah/AFP via Getty Images This week, new Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu will travel to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai with hopes this year’s event will spur long-awaited action on climate change. President Muizzu, who was inaugurated on November 17, has called for increased international cooperation and finance on climate-related issues to assist small island nations like the Maldives. “[E]very coral that’s bleached, every piece of land that’s contaminated, every…

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