The Director General of the Pacific Community says accessing climate finance remains a challenge in the Pacific.
The Pacific Community (SPC) is the region's premier international development organisation owned and governed by 27 Pacific countries and territories.
Dr Stuart Minchin told RNZ Pacific's Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor that it has a division of climate change and environmental sustainability that works specifically to help countries with climate finance because it is such a complex process.
Coastal homes in Tuvalu, Funafuti pictured on November 28, 2019. The low-lying South Pacific island nation of about 11,000 people has been classified as "extremely vulnerable" to climate change by the United Nations Development Programme due to rising sea levels. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images