Speaking in between the two biggest CO2-emitting nations - China and the United States - Maldives president Mohammed Nasheed makes desperate plea to the United Nations to make sure that the upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen will not be a failure. “We can not make Copenhagen a pact for suicide,” he told world leaders.

Sir David Frost talks to Mohammed Waheed Hassan, the vice-president of the Maldives, about climate change and why something has to be done to save the Maldives from rising sea levels.