Tension at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is not new. Climate change is an existential threat to the Pacific Islands, and a threat that the international community has not acted quickly or decisively to mitigate. Their campaign was supported by Regenvanu and later by the Pacific Islands Forum and the broader international community. Houniuhi is currently an assistant law professor at the University of the South Pacific and president of Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change. Tension between Australia and the Pacific Islands over climate change is likely to persist too.