The commentary below takes its cue from remarks led by Forum Secretary General Henry Puna, at the Ministerial Forum for Cooperation in the Indo Pacific in Paris, France, on February 22, 2022.  SG Puna spoke to a ministerial roundtable on Health, Climate, Biodiversity and Oceans.
Taking our Pacific challenges- and solutions to the world has always required coherent, clear messaging on the issues close to our collective heart. Whether we are talking about household families, villages, or national populations, if we are not speaking to the realities of everyday people, all the policy and high-level language is unable to connect.