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In the Pacific, current SDG progress is not on track to achieve any of the SDGs by 2030, with major progress needed across all environmental, societal, and economical realms.

Our roundtable brought together grassroots experts, global multilateral organisations, and researchers to call for rapid and meaningful change to our approach to food, water, and energy security for a world in urgent need of decarbonisation. Discussions expanded on the current state of knowledge in the Pacific, reflecting on the role of carbon at the nexus of increasing water, energy, and food security towards and post 2030.

Adding further complexity, new methodologies to meet recent national targets for net zero greenhouse gas emissions under the 2050 Paris Agreement are now also being developed.

With the Pacific at the forefront of the call for greater climate change action as well as most at risk to face its ultimate and irreversible impact – forced migration – the roundtable discussion drew on ongoing collaborations in the Pacific as well as wider good practice to underline that progress towards each of the SDGs should not come at the expense of the others.

For a more in-depth look at the issues discussed during the roundtable, the accompanying publication is presented below.