Dear Editor - As the UK annual carbon dioxide emission from fossil fuels was only 2.2% of the world total in 2004, nothing we can do in the UK will make a difference to the total CO2 emissions.

Perhaps Friends of the Earth climate change campaigner Gordon James should take his message to China (18.4% of world CO2 emissions).

It would be more to the point if Friends of the Earth advocated an embargo on goods manufactured in Asia until they get their emissions down.

RICHARD F. SHEPHERD Whalecwm House, Cosheston Pembroke.