The idea for Green future Maldives originated from the “ICT for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change” workshop organized by UN-APCICT in collaboration with MNU in March 2012. Members decided that to actively carry forward the agenda/idea, a platform such as an association was necessary.
Objectives:
- Increase public awareness for environment friendly living and renewable energy methods while exploring the opportunities of external aid for skills needed to show this in action.
- Increase public awareness using a variety of media options in order to decrease the effects of global warming, climate change and natural disasters.
- Encourage and make the public aware of environment friendly methods which could be used in order to dispose waste effectively.
- Implement projects which would help minimize the effects of global warming, climate change and natural disasters
- Facilitate research which would help minimize the effects of global warming, climate change and natural disasters.
- Give proper information, coordinate awareness and action oriented campaigns for school children and youth regarding how to minimize the effects of global warming, climate change and natural disasters.
- Seek external aid and utilize them in the best interest of our country to increase public awareness on how to take prior action in order to minimize the effects of global warming, climate change and natural disasters.
- Seek for internal and external aid for the use of research and to develop human resources with regard to global warming and climate change.
- Making the public aware of minimizing the effects of natural disasters.
- Work to increase public participation and team spirit and provide guidance on how to plan effectively and work effectively in a team in an incident of a natural disaster.
- Work in collaboration with all the organizations in Maldives who are involved in minimizing the effects of natural disasters.
- Participate as a civil society in national and international conferences organized with regard to climate change.
- Create and maintain an information portal which provides information regarding climate change and the environment.
- To make use of the most recent and best Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to achieve all the above mentioned objectives.