Maldives

Population: 348,119
GDP: $1.716 billion (2008 est.)
Total Area: 298 sq km
Annual carbon emissions per capita: 2.10
Annual carbon emissions as percent of world's total: .0025%

“In Maldives, an estimated 50% of all inhabited islands and 45% of tourist resorts currently suffer from beach erosion. Like many other small island countries in the tropics, in Maldives the effects of sea-surface warming on coral reefs are reflected in the increased incidence of coral bleaching and mortality events.”
--Tourism and climate change: risks and opportunities, Becken, S., & Hay, J., 2007

Maldives Cabinet meeting held underwater: “With a backdrop of coral, the meeting was a bid to draw attention to fears that rising sea levels caused by the melting of polar ice caps could swamp this Indian Ocean archipelago within a century. Its islands average 7 feet (2.1 meters) above sea level.

‘What we are trying to make people realize is that the Maldives is a frontline state. This is not merely an issue for the Maldives but for the world,’ [President Mohammed] Nasheed said.”
“Maldives Government Dives for Climate Change”, New York Times, October 17, 2009