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Secretary-General António Guterres (seated, third from right) meets with the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders. 26 September 2025. UN Photo/Evan Schneider
The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) brings the Pacific region together to address pressing issues and to foster collaboration and cooperation in the pursuit of shared goals. Founded in 1971, it comprises 18 members: Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. As part of its cooperation with regional organizations, the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) has been increasing its cooperation with the PIF Secretariat to address the unique challenges facing the region, including peace and security, governance, climate change, sustainable development/2030 agenda, gender equality and youth empowerment.

DPPA continues to partner with PIF, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), as well as the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS) and others to support national and regional peacebuilding objectives. In 2024, this included convening a dialogue with PIF Ambassadors to the UN to discuss national and regional climate migration strategies in partnership with IOM.  In 2023 DPPA convened environmental peacebuilding dialogues with PIF Ambassadors to the UN to discuss different aspects of the climate change and security nexus affecting small states. For example, in May 2023 DPPA convened an informal exchange on developing gender-sensitive responses to climate-related security challenges in the Pacific. In 2022, DPPA supported the Peacebuilding Fund, UNDP and IOM on the Climate Security in the Pacific pilot project, in close coordination with local communities and Governments in three atoll nations (Kiribati, Republic of Marshall Islands and Tuvalu). The project undertook inclusive consultations to identify the most pressing climate-related security risks, including through an embedded environmental peacebuilding expert in the PIF Secretariat. Pilot briefs for the three initial countries can be found here.  In April 2021, an online discussion on the nexus of climate-related security risks and human rights in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) took place involving governments, experts and UN partners. In May 2019, DPPA in partnership with OHRLLS hosted a workshop on Climate Change, Conflict Prevention and Sustainable Peace: Perspectives from the Pacific. The summary report of the workshop is available here.