Postcard from Tuvalu

Dear Mr Bush and Mr Howard

During the celebration marking the first anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol coming into force, students and members of the public in Tuvalu signed postcards, asking the governments of the USA and Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, to save Tuvalu from climate change.

On behalf of these students and members of the public, WWF presented these postcards to the US Embassy and Australian High Commission in Suva.

Signed postcards were presented to the US Ambassador and his Deputy, in front of various Fiji media. The US maintain their stand - of not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol unless large developing countries like China and India do so.

Ambassador Larry Dinger told the media the US was involved in other activities that addressed climate change in a way the US felt appropriate. Unfortunately, a lot of this work focuses on further research, despite growing scientific consensus on adequate evidence of climate change, and of furthering trade in coal and nuclear energy under the Asia Pacific Pact on Clean Energy and Development.

At the Australian High Commission, the postcards were presented to an official from the Economics and Politics division, who unfortunately was neither mandated to speak to WWF, nor the media.

Both the embassies promised to forward the signed postcards to their respective governments. WWF would like to thank Ambassador Larry Dinger, his Deputy Chief of Mission - Mr. Ted Mann, and Ms. Rachael Crouper of the Australian High Commission for receiving the postcards from Tuvalu.

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