Yearbook 2007
Palau. In October, President Tommy E. Remengesau urged
the nation to take active action to reduce the effects of
climate change. His appeal came after he and Palau's other
top politicians had seen US former Vice President Al Gores
mentioned the climate film An Inconvenient Truth on a
Special Screening.
According to
CountryAAH, Remengesau specifically addressed congressmen and urged
them to participate in environmental work, in particular
through the so-called The Micronesia Challenge, which the
president himself initiated in 2005. Through the initiative,
Remengesau challenges leaders in neighboring Micronesia
Federation, Marshall Islands and the US territories of Guam
and the Northern Mariana Islands. work with Palau to protect
the environment. The goal is to preserve 30 percent of the
coastal marine environment and 20 percent of the island
nations forests by 2020.
A proposal for a new law to strengthen the Palau majority
language was passed in May by the Senate. The idea is to
protect the palau from too much involvement of English,
which is popular with young people and is also the country's
official language as well as the palau. The law would also
be approved by the House of Representatives before it could
take effect.
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