The Maldives is getting tough on climate change with the government recently announcing a new plan to fund its climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts with a $3 per day tax on all tourists coming to the low-lying Indian Ocean nation’s island resorts.

 In 2008 some 683,000 people visited the Maldives as tourists, which is nearly double the island native population.  It has been reported that revenues from this tax will go towards the islands efforts to make the nation the first carbon neutral nation on Earth, as well as efforts to allow the nation to move en masse to higher ground with higher sea levels later this century.

I think this tax is a great idea. Although a small carbon emitter, it seems like island nations such as the Maldives are bearing the brunt of climate change. Therefore this tax seems like a measured and reasonable response to the growing threat of rising sea levels. Of course your thoughts are always appreciated.