The ABC reports that Japan plans to give $11 billion over the next 5 years to countries suffering from the effects of climate change.
As well as countries like China and Indonesia, Japan plans to assist the Pacific island country of Tuvalu, which is made up of 9 islands totalling 26 square km and with a population of only 11,000.
Tuvalu's people fear that with seas rising their country is destined to disappear and that they will become climate change refugees.
Last year, the previous Australian government of John Howard refused to even meet the Tuvaluans to discuss the issue.
Let's hope the new Rudd government may change its tune on Tuvalu.
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