As public discussion on climate change and ways to arrest its impact continue around the world, one of many low-lying atolls in the Pacific wrestles with the issue right now.
The president of Local Government New Zealand says its climate change declaration is purely aspirational and no one is being pressured into signing up.
The prime minister, alongside Sir David Attenborough, has discussed the challenges of tackling climate change and encouraged world leaders to take on kaitiakitanga.
Indigenous views must be included when it comes to creating climate change policies for the Pacific region, according to Pacific community leaders and a group of climate change experts.
An environmental project in Vanuatu has been helping people adapt to new laws being brought in to save the country's marine and terrestrial environments.
