{{short description|Tuvaluan politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = Tavau Teii | honorific_suffix = OBE | order = Deputy Prime Minister of Tuvalu | image = Tavau Teii at MEDEF.jpg | monarch = Elizabeth II | governor_general = Filoimea Telito<br />Sir Kamuta Latasi<br />Sir Iakoba Italeli | deputy = | term_start = 14 August 2006 | term_end = 16 September 2010 | predecessor = Kokeiya Malua | successor = Enele Sopoaga | birth_date = | birth_place = Tuvalu | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Politician | constituency = | caption = Teii in 2007 }} '''Tavau Teii''' is a political figure from the Pacific nation of Tuvalu.
==Election== After standing unsuccessfully for Parliament in the 2002 general election in the constituency of Niutao, Teii won a by-election on 5 May 2003 triggered by the death of the incumbent.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060510100735/http://www.tuvaluislands.com/news/archived/2003/2003-05-06.htm "Government Fate Hangs on by-election"]}}, Radio Australia, 6 May 2003</ref>
==Deputy Prime Minister of Tuvalu== He was Deputy Prime Minister of Tuvalu in the Ielemia Ministry (2006–2010).<ref name="TNTV1">{{cite web|title= Tuvalu elects Apisai Ielemia as new prime minister| publisher=Radio New Zealand |date =15 August 2006|url= http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/164041/tuvalu-elects-apisai-ielemia-as-new-prime-minister| access-date=5 April 2017}}</ref> His ministerial portfolio included that of Minister of Natural Resources.
Teii lost his bid for re-election in the 2010 Tuvaluan general election.<ref name=radioaus>{{cite news|title=Tuvalu PM, speaker retain seats as deputy PM crashes out|url=http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201009/s3014232.htm|work=Radio Australia |date=2010-09-17|access-date=2010-09-17}}</ref><ref name=tuvalunews>{{cite news|first=Brian|last=Cannon |title=Tuvalu Election Results |url=http://www.tuvaluislands.com/news/archives/2010/2010-09-16.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925211043/http://www.tuvaluislands.com/news/archives/2010/2010-09-16.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=25 September 2010|work=Tuvalu News |publisher=Tuvaluislands.com|date=2010-09-16|access-date=2010-09-17}}</ref> He was a candidate in the 2015 Tuvaluan general election and received 90 votes, but was not elected to parliament.<ref name="FN010415">{{cite web| work= Fenui News|title=Tuvalu National Election 2015 Results (Niutao)|date =1 April 2015|url= https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=423610027800178&id=333658940128621| access-date=1 April 2015}}</ref> He was a candidate in the 2019 general election, but was not elected to parliament.<ref name=RNZ19>{{cite web|first=Jamie|last=Tahana|title= Tuvalu elections: large turnover for new parliament|work=Radio New Zealand |date=10 September 2019|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/398454/tuvalu-elections-large-turnover-for-new-parliament|access-date=10 September 2019}}</ref>
==United Nations appearances== During his tenure as Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Teii attended the Nairobi Climate Change Summit held in November 2006.<ref name="United Nations">{{cite web|title=United Nations|url=http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2006/cop12/eng/05.pdf|publisher=United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change|access-date=5 December 2011}}</ref><ref name="Tuvalu at the United Nations">{{cite web|title=Tuvalu at the United Nations|url=http://www.tuvaluislands.com/un/2007/un_2007-10-01.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080301223043/http://www.tuvaluislands.com/un/2007/un_2007-10-01.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=1 March 2008|work=Tuvalu Islands.com|access-date=30 November 2011}}</ref> As Deputy Prime Minister Teii represented Tuvalu to discuss the implications of climate change at the United Nations High-Level Event on Climate Change at the United Nations General Assembly, between 29 September 2007 and 1 October 2007.<ref name="Tuvalu at the United Nations"/> Teii proposed possible changes to the Kyoto Protocol to be discussed at the Bali Climate Change Conference held between 3 and 15 December 2007.<ref name="United Nations"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Statement at 62nd Session of the United Nations|url=https://www.un.org/webcast/ga/62/2007/pdfs/tuvalu-eng.pdf|publisher=United Nations|access-date=31 May 2015}}</ref>
In his speech on 29 September 2007, Teii declared that "Tuvalu is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change so we are seeking new funding arrangements to protect us from the impacts of climate change," and "Rather than relying on aid money we believe that the major greenhouse polluters should pay for the impacts they are causing."<ref>{{cite web|title=Tuvalu calls for Climate Change Polluters to Pay |url=http://www.tuvaluislands.com/un/2007/un_2007-09-29.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218064745/http://www.tuvaluislands.com/un/2007/un_2007-09-29.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=18 December 2007|work=tuvaluislands.com|access-date=31 May 2015}}</ref>
==Honours== Teii was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours for services to politics.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=12 June 2010 |issue=59451 |supp=6 |pages=39–40 |nolink=yes}}</ref>
==See also==
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130301131646/http://www.tuvalu-news.tv/archives/2006/08/ Appointment of Government of Apisai Ielemia in 2006]
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