Last week, Oxfam and other global poverty groups met with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. At this meeting, we handed him a global petition with over 575,000 signatures calling on world leaders to take strong action against climate change.

The prime minister was very open to our calls for strong actionon climate change and tackling global poverty. We have you to thank for helping us deliver such a powerful message.

Now let's keep up the momentum! Can you forward this email to five friends and ask them to sign our petition?

Send your friends tohttp://act.oxfamamerica.org/campaign/2008_g8 .

While we delivered the initial petition to Prime Minister Fukuda, we want to grow the petition to ONE MILLION concerned citizens worldwide before the leaders of the eight richest countries (the G8) meet in two weeks.

Climate change is already exacting a severe toll on poor communities. Their homes and farms are the ones hardest hit when droughts, flooding, and storms strike.

Our growing petition has the power to put climate change and poverty at the center of the debate at the G8 Summit. The summit coincides with the famous Japanese Tanabata festival, where people tie written wishes to bamboo trees. We'll present the petition as our fervent wish: that the G8 leaders commit to ending global poverty and fighting climate change.

Thank you!!