Ms. Kaisamy is currently leading the strategic and operational delivery of the Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC) since its establishment in 2019. The PCCC is the Centre of Excellence for Pacific people, for climate change information, applied research, innovation, and capacity development.

Dr Edward Morgan is a transdisciplinary Research Fellow at Griffith University. His research focuses on policy, governance and planning for addressing environmental, climate change and sustainable development problems through collaborative and systems-based approaches, with a focus on community-centred and locally-led approaches.

Rhea Cordeiro is the climate finance absorption officer for Fiji. She has 10 years experience in climate policy, adaptation, climate finance, sustainability and project management in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific. She has contributed to developing Green Climate Fund funding proposals, monitoring and evaluation of large climate programmes, analysis for building project pipelines and capacities, during her time at Oxford Policy Management over the past four years.

Tupu is Samoan-born and passionate about her village and the land she grew up on with her mother and grandmother before her. This land, her place of belonging, is the subject of this paper. Mino is Samoan and is pursuing a PhD examining forced relocation from traditional lands in Samoa.

Thathsarani de Silva is a PhD candidate in Landscape Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a Landscape Architect (Sri Lanka) and previously served as a lecturer at the University of Moratuwa and holds a Master’s in Environmental Management. Her expertise includes landscape planning, environmental management, and academic research.

Project coordinator for the Project for Innovative Solutions for Pacific Climate Change Resilience (ISPCCR), previously work as a technical advisor for Climate Change in the Global Environmental Department, JICA, Japan.