Making a full switch to renewable energy is not an easy task, yet there is one country that is willing to take on this challenge, and make it real within the next decade: the Maldives. According to its president, Mohamed Nasheed, the country will become world’s first carbon-neutral nation.

The announcement came amid more warning from scientists that the world is witnessing an accelerating global warming process that could raise sea level to catastrophic heights within the next decades.

As you may or may not know it, the Maldives is one of the countries situated at the lowest levels above the sea, approximately 1.5 meters on average. This puts the country on the list of most vulnerable places to rising sea levels, and by 2100, most of the islands could get covered in water.

“Climate change threatens us all,” President Mohamed Nasheed said in a statement, according to Reuters. “Countries need to pull together to de-carbonise the world economy. We know cutting greenhouse gas emissions is possible and the Maldives is willing to play its part.”

Last year, President Nasheed announced intentions to start purchasing land elsewhere, since the country might get covered in water soon.

Soon, the Maldives will have 155 wind turbines, half a square kilometer of rooftop solar panels, and a biomass plan burning coconut husks, according to The Guardian.

This plan will not be easy to implement, President Nasheed said, as quoted by the same source. There will be hiccups, and electricity might occasionally get disrupted, but it is ultimately a realistic challenge that will show the apathetic developed world that such action is possible, and at reasonable costs.