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Toaripi Lauti

1934

	Tuvalu - MSN Encarta
		Koloa Talake was elected prime minister in 2001 and Saufatu Sopoanga in August 2002.
		A UN report in 1989 on global warming put Tuvalu as an island group at risk from flooding and possible disappearance as a result of predicted climate changes.
		Saufatu Sopoanga was elected as the country’s new prime minister in a close 8-to-7 vote in August 2002.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574118_2/Tuvalu.html (430 words)

	CNN.com - Australia under scrutiny over global warming - March 3, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Prime Minister of Tuvalu, Koloa Talake, told media at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Monday that his country was exploring this and other legal options for his low-lying Pacific nation.
		Talake said a number of islets where he used to play as a child had already been submerged and high-tide flooding had become a common event.
		Talake said he was disappointed that Australia was not championing the cause of the small Pacific nations and instead siding with the United States on the greenhouse issue.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/03/chogm.globalwarming/index.html (344 words)

	Koloa Talake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Koloa Talake (born 1934) served as prime minister of Tuvalu for nine months, 2001-2002, after defeating Faimalaga Luka in a vote of no confidence.
		In that time, he negotiated the sale of that country's Internet domain name,.tv, to an American company in order to bring an income to his resource poor country.
		After being defeated in elections in 2002, Talake relocated to Auckland, New Zealand, where his children were living.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Koloa_Talake (144 words)

	Planet Ark - Vanishing Tuvalu seeks Australian climate rethink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Prime Minister Koloa Talake said Australia's government, which has expressed sympathy with Washington's rejection of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty on climate change, should consider the danger posed by pollution and rising sea levels.
		Talake said some islets in his homeland in the South Pacific have already vanished.
		Talake said Tuvalu was taking advice on whether it could take legal action against polluter states or big corporations responsible for greenhouse gas emissions.
	www.planetark.org /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=14853 (403 words)

	Tuvalu RISE TO POWER
		Following general elections held on 25 July 2002, Saufatu Sopoanga was elected prime minister, replacing Koloa Talake, who was elected the fourth prime minister within two years, in December 2001 when parliamentary discontent with the policies of Prime Minister Faimalaga Luka led to a motion of no-confidence resulting in the dissolution of Luka's government.
		Sopoanga was the former minister of finance in the Talake administration, and he defeated opposition candidate Amasone Kilei in Parliament by eight votes to seven.
		In 2002, under Talake, he served as the Minister for Finance and Economic Planning and Minister for Tourism, Trade and Commerce.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /World-Leaders-2003/Tuvalu-RISE-TO-POWER.html (401 words)

	Pacific Magazine: Talake, Luka Tussle For PM In Island Nation Polls
		He has hired a United States law firm to file legal action against the United States Government and most probably the Australian Government too, for their refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and thereby adhere to an international effort to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.
		Although Luka has described the proposed lawsuit as ridiculous and a manifestation of Talake's personal agenda, the latter is adamant that industrialized nations must be taken to task over the threat caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
		Confident he will secure his Vaitupu Island seat and return as prime minister, Talake says he will be in Suva this month for the Pacific Islands Forum summit to lobby island leaders for support for his planned legal action against the United States.
	www.pacificislands.cc /issue/2002/08/01/talake-luka-tussle-for-pm-in-island-nation-polls (788 words)

	News
		Talake said he will raise the issue of global warming and the environment at the CHOGM leaders' session on Tuesday.
		Prime Minister Talake said a number of small islets on which he used to play when he was a boy are not there any longer.
		Talake said this is why Tuvalu is seeking legal advice about suing major greenhouse gas emitters, including Australia.
	www.tuvaluislands.com /news/archived/2002/2002-03-04.htm (466 words)

	Will Tuvalu Disappear Beneath the Sea? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Talake had served on the board of a California company that in 2000 purchased the rights to Tuvalu’s Internet domain address extension (.tv), and he helped negotiate its resale to another U.S. company in 2002.
		Talake says he had hoped his lawsuits would bring Tuvalu “several million dollars for the damage caused by emissions.” But that was secondary, he adds: “We are asking for a place to live if the tide comes against us.
		Talake is part of a growing Tuvaluan community in New Zealand of some 2,000.
	www.smithsonianmagazine.com /issues/2004/august/tuvalu.php?page=5 (699 words)

	Asia Times: Tuvalu puts faith in legal ark
		But Prime Minister Koloa Talake says the only thing rising faster than the tide around his country's nine atolls is the cost of moving the 11,000 inhabitants elsewhere.
		Talake blames the United States and other leading economies for their half-hearted commitment to emissions reductions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its protocols.
		While the legal sideshow grinds on, Talake and his people will be looking for a country willing to take them in.
	www.atimes.com /oceania/DC07Ah01.html (827 words)

	Pacific Magazine: # Tuvalu PM Talake tours Taiwan
		Tuvalu Prime Minister Koloa Talake left for home after winding up a week-long visit to the Republic of China (Taiwan) - and promising it international support.
		Talake said that he was impressed by Taiwan's development in every aspect and that his country can learn from Taiwan in terms of its economic development.
		Talake also visited various cultural and fishery establishments, as well as the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, the heart of Taiwan's high-tech industry.
	www.pacificislands.cc /news/2002/04/25/-tuvalu-pm-talake-tours-taiwan (183 words)

	East-West Center: Events: PACIFIC ISLAND LEADERS HEAT UP PROTESTS ON GLOBAL WARMING
		HONOLULU (March 20) -- Tuvalu Prime Minister Koloa Talake holds little stock in scientists who say global warming is not causing sea levels to rise.
		Talake will be meeting later this month with attorneys from the U.S. mainland who have approached Tuvalu about filing a lawsuit against industrialized nations and industries.
		Talake also said his government is paying for a study on sustainable and renewable energy in his own nation "to show people we are not just putting our hands out."
	www.eastwestcenter.org /events-en-detail.asp?news_ID=57 (547 words)

	Tuvalu Toodle-oo (Cont.) \| Outside Online
		Talake got a cool response from his biggest South Pacific neighbor.
		The Australian government-which asserts that "the likely impact of climate-change-induced sea-level rises in the Pacific is not immediate"-flatly rebuffed Tuvalu's calls for immigration.
		At the same summit, Talake raised the prospect of filing suit in the International Court of Justice against the United States and Australia for their prominent role in pumping up the atmospheric greenhouse with carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.
	outside.away.com /outside/features/200212/200212_tuvalu_2.html (657 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Talake is scheduled to be formally sworn in as government head today.
		The Luka government was brought down when four members of his government crossed the floor in support of an opposition no-confidence motion.
		Talake, who was one of those who crossed the floor, received eight of the 15 votes cast in yesterday's secret ballot.
	www.tuvaluislands.com /news/archived/2001/2001-12-14.htm (214 words)

	AEGiS-Reuters: African Nations Close Ranks Around Zimbabwe
		Though Zimbabwe dominated Sunday's discussions, for Pacific and Caribbean island nations a more pressing concern at the talkfest was global warming, which threatens to engulf some low-lying islands such as Tuvalu and the Maldives.
		Talake said the Australian government, which has expressed sympathy with Washington's rejection of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty on climate change, should consider the danger posed by pollution and rising sea levels.
		The Kyoto treaty was scuttled by the United States, which last month came up with a voluntary plan to combat global warming rather than the mandatory limits the treaty sought to impose.
	www.aegis.com /news/re/2002/RE020301.html (898 words)

	Koloa, koloa kauai, koloa plantation days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Koloa is a census-designatedplace located in Kauai County, Hawaii koloa.
		Koloa, HI, population 1942, is located in Hawaii's Kauai county, about 111.
		Koloa Talake (born 1934) served as prime minister of Tuvalu for nine months,2001-2002, koloa.
	www.corestorage.org /koloa.html (403 words)

	Pacific Islands Leaders Heat up protests on global warming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Talake met with 10 other island leaders attending last week's Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders at the East-West Center.
		Pacific island nations, frustrated that industrialized countries have not given more attention to the problems caused by greenhouse-gas emission and global warming, are starting to raise their voices as one.
		They agreed at their meeting that developed countries need to take moral responsibility for their part in causing climate change, and although it is costly to take preventive measures, polluting nations should pay the cost.
	www.fsmgov.org /press/nw03200a.htm (448 words)

	CNN.com - Sinking islands float legal challenge - March 5, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Talake has appealed to the international community for help to save his country from becoming submerged by the sea.
		Law experts and environmentalists say that suing the U.S. and Australia over their failure to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Treaty would be prohibitively expensive, drawn out and hard to win.
		Talake has already disputed scientific studies, supported by Australia and the United States, which suggest there had, as yet, been no discernible rise in sea levels.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/03/05/pacific.sealevel (644 words)

	Living on Earth: Early Signs: New Zealand’s Climate Refugees
		Talake now lives across from the beach on a remote peninsula north of Auckland.
		Former Tuvalu Prime Minister Koloa Talake stares at at the beach across the street from his home on a remote peninsula north of Auckland.
		TALAKE: Eventually, there will be no place for the people to live except to climb up the coconut trees and live at the top.
	www.loe.org /shows/segments.htm?programID=06-P13-00013&segmentID=6 (2707 words)

	Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter
		That does not matter to island nations, which have grown impatient with the debate while they watch their beaches slowly disappear.
		They met in Honolulu to discuss the problem and Tuvalu Prime Minister Koloa Talake told the other nine Pacific Island leaders he has witnessed the beach outside his house lose about 50 yards over the past 50 years.
		Talake also is expected to visit U.S. attorneys later this month to discuss possible legal action.
	www.hawaiireporter.com /story.aspx?8c88449b-5f26-4919-b252-78eb1633382d (708 words)

	Pacific Magazine: Preserving Paradise, Vanuata Style
		Tuvalu Prime Minister Koloa Talake, 60, didn't have a sophisticated media support team like Sir Mekere.
		Sir Mekere and Mr Talake, column readers, were the good news from Coolum.
		The bad news was the failure of most of our Pacific Islands delegations to exploit this opportunity to get their message out to the world.
	www.pacificislands.cc /issue/2002/04/01/preserving-paradise-vanuata-style?printview=1 (933 words)

	Tuvalu Declares War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tuvalu, which has a population of about 12,000 people, is slowly sinking because of rising sea levels blamed on global warming.
		Its Prime Minister Koloa Talake announced here Sunday that Tuvalu and two other island nations, Kiribati and Maldives, are planning legal action against major polluting countries and corporations.
		Australia would be a major target of an action in the International Court of Justice, and claims are also likely against tobacco, oil and car manufacturing companies, he said.
	taint.org /pipermail/forteana/2002-March/000068.html (317 words)

	Come hell or high water: rising sea levels and extreme flooding threaten to make the South Pacific''s Tuvalu the first ...
		Prime Minister Koloa Talake at the 1997 Kyoto conference in Japan
		In 1997, Tuvalu Prime Minister Koloa Talake delivered an impassioned speech to the world leaders attending the Kyoto conference in Japan, imploring them to act immediately in response to climate change.
		Meanwhile, Prime Minister Talake has hired law firms in both the US and Australia to help Tuvalu formulate a court case against these leading greenhouse gas polluters.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-2745749_ITM (1131 words)

	History of Tuvalu
		Saufatu Sopoanga, a former civil servant, became Prime Minister in August 2002.
		He replaced Koloa Talake, who had replaced Faimalaga Luka after a vote of no confidence in 2001.
		It is expected that Tuvalu will now have a period of political stability.
	www.historyofnations.net /oceania/tuvalu.html (438 words)

	Koloa Talake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Er war von Dezember 2001 bis August 2002 Premierminister des Landes, nachdem er ein Misstrauensvotum gegen seinen Vorgänger Faimalaga Luka gewonnen hatte.
		Der infolge des Treibhauseffekts steigende Meeresspiegel stellt für die drei Inselstaaten eine existentielle Bedrohung dar.
		Nachdem Talake 2002 bei den Wahlen seinen Sitz im Parlament verloren hatte, zog er zu seinen Kindern nach Auckland (Neuseeland).
	vb.game-host.org /de/Koloa_Talake.htm (135 words)

	Global warming not sinking Tuvalu -- but maybe its people are
		Contrast that hard science with the emotional statement of Tuvalu Prime Minister Koloa Talake at last months Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Australia.
		He announced there that Tuvalu, its neighbour Kiribati and the Maldives were planning legal action against Western nations who they say are creating the global warming that is raising the Pacific's level.
		These things are gone, somebody has taken them and global warming is the culprit," Talake said.
	www.spacedaily.com /2002/020328041702.ixj7exir.html (805 words)

	Island nation may sue U.S. over global warming - by S. Fred Singer - The Heartland Institute
		While not expecting to win what would be lengthy and expensive legal cases, observers say Tuvalu would at least draw global attention to its plight.
		“The Pacific Island of Tuvalu has criticized Australia’s position on global warming for favoring the United States at the expense of its neighbors.” Tuvalu’s Prime Minister, Koloa Talake, said he was considering international legal action against major Australian companies whose emissions contributed to global warming and rising sea levels.
		Talake also announced a partnership with Ecos Corporation, headed by former Greenpeace chief Paul Gilding, to develop a model for a sustainable and renewable energy system for Tuvalu, likely to be based on solar or wave power.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=904 (677 words)

	Koloa Talake - Schlauweb
		Koloa Talake (* 1934) ist ein tuvaluischer Politiker.
		Der vermöge des Treibhauseffekts steigende Normalnull stellt für die drei Inselstaaten eine existentielle Bedrohung dar.
		Nachdem Talake 2002 bei den Wahlen seinen Sitz im Volksvertretung verloren hatte, zog er zu seinen Kindern nach Auckland (Neuseeland).
	www.schlauweb.de /Koloa_Talake (219 words)

	Young People's Trust for the Environment
		He added that global temperatures will continue to rise and no amount of talking about Kyoto or the US position would stop it.
		Prime Minister Koloa Talake, of the Tuvalu islands says his nation of 10,000 people might sue the United States and Australia over their failure to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Treaty.
		Although he admits it will be a lengthy and expensive exercise that they are unlikely to win at least it would draw global attention to the plight of the nine coral atoll islands that sit only 16 feet above sea level.
	www.yptenc.org.uk /docs/dailygecko_news/archives/08.03.02.html (491 words)

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		All we have is coconut trees," elder statesman Koloa Talake said.
		Fearing for their existence, the low-lying island nations of Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Nauru in the Pacific and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean have joined Tuvalu in urging the United States to reduce its atmospheric pollution.
		"Tuvalu is the first victim of global warming," said Talake, a former prime minister.
	www.climateark.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=16475 (1509 words)

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