Climate change is a common challenge faced by humanity and bears on the future of all mankind. The international community should work together to tackle the challenge, protect planet Earth which is our common home, and build a community of life for man and nature. The Pacific Island region is one of the regions most severely affected by climate change. As an important partner of Pacific Island Countries (PICs), China is all along committed to helping and supporting the region in addressing climate change under the framework of South-South cooperation as much as its capabilities permit. To further assist PICs in strengthening climate response and resilience and deepen climate cooperation with PICs, China proposes the following:

1. China will stand firmly with PICs to uphold true multilateralism. The two sides will jointly commemorate the 10th anniversary of the conclusion of the Paris Agreement, recognizing the good progress made since the agreement came into force. China will work with PICs to build a global climate governance system featuring fairness, equity and win-win cooperation. Reaffirming that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”) and its Paris Agreement are the main channel and basic legal framework for international cooperation on climate change, China stays committed to their goals, principles and rules and guided by the principles of equity, common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities established in the Convention, China will work with all parties for the sound implementation of the Convention and its Paris Agreement, and for a positive outcome of the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the Convention.

2. China will enhance coordination and cooperation with PICs in the multilateral climate response process. China will encourage the international community to fully understand the special situation and concerns of developing countries, especially PICs, on the issue of climate change. China will urge developed countries to earnestly fulfill their obligations and commitments, provide adequate funding, technology and capacity-building support to developing countries, and particularly implement the decision adopted at COP29 on the new collective quantified goal (NCQG) for climate finance, to jointly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries including PICs. China opposes unilateral restrictive measures and green trade barriers in the name of tackling climate change.

3. China will firmly support PICs in addressing climate change through sustainable development. Fully recognizing the vulnerability of PICs’ economic and social development in the face of the climate crisis, China announced that it will allocate US$2 million for the further expansion of cooperation with PICs in such areas as clean energy, agriculture, fishery, ocean, low-carbon infrastructure, low-carbon tourism, and disaster prevention and mitigation, to help PICs improve their energy structure, advance industrial upgrading, and strengthen capabilities in achieving the U.N. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, so as to better respond to climate change.

4. China will speed up the implementation of cooperation programs on climate change response. Efforts will be made to promote the establishment of low-carbon demonstration zones, carry out capacity-building training programs to support PICs in cultivating professional personnel, and strengthen the leading role of South-South cooperation projects in enhancing PICs’ capacity to address climate change. China will make full use of the China-PICs Climate Change Cooperation Center to enhance communication and cooperation with PICs, and continue to hold the China-PICs climate change dialogue and seminars on climate resilience building for PICs. In the next three years, China will conduct 100 small and beautiful projects for the local communities in PICs to help them improve climate resilience. China welcomes more PICs to join the International Zero-Carbon Island Cooperation Initiative.

5. China will deepen cooperation with PICs on disaster prevention, mitigation and response. China supports the U.N. Early Warnings for All initiative, and will share early warning technologies and practices with PICs and provide high-frequency meteorological disaster monitoring through FENGYUN meteorological satellites, as set out in the China’s Action Plan on Early Warning for Climate Change Adaptation (2025-2027). China will strengthen disaster management cooperation with PICs under the China-PICs disaster management cooperation mechanism, and leverage the Center for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Cooperation to provide disaster monitoring and early warning technology and services, post-disaster emergency supplies assistance, emergency humanitarian assistance and disaster assessment support, and establish demonstration communities of enhanced comprehensive disaster mitigation capacity, so as to improve climate resilience of PICs.

6. China fully understands the importance of marine environment to PICs. China will support PICs in protecting the marine ecological environment, improving the infrastructure and capacity to respond to sea level rising, coastal erosion and marine disasters, and carrying out studies and exchanges on the impact of sea level rising on islands. China will expand cooperation with PICs in such areas as the sustainable utilization of resources in coastal zones as well as the protection, restoration and governance of coastal zones. China will make full use of its technological and human resource strengths in marine environment observation and forecast, disaster early warning and the protection and restoration of marine ecological systems to help PICs with marine disaster prevention and mitigation. China will support PICs in the sustainable development of fishery and offshore aquaculture and assist them in fostering a blue economy with climate resilience.