Nature-based climate adaptation: Vanuatu has officially launched three policy tools under the PPIN project, including guidance to weave nature-based solutions into the National Adaptation Plan and coastal resilience/forestry planning—treating healthy forests, mangroves, reefs and seagrass as real “infrastructure” for protecting people and livelihoods. Regional climate cooperation: The inaugural Pacific Climate Summit wrapped up with a joint commitment from California, Fiji, Guam, Hawaiʻi, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Weno to strengthen climate adaptation and resilience through deeper regional cooperation. Tourism and sustainability: Vanuatu unveiled its Tourism Marketing Strategy 2026–2028 in Port Vila, aiming to shift from recovery to sustainable growth and lift visitor numbers through resilience, regenerative development and better connectivity. Volcano hazard knowledge: A new study highlights how Indigenous oral traditions across the Pacific—including Vanuatu—can add place-based insights into volcanic eruptions and improve disaster preparedness when paired with science. Disaster risk funding: The Asian Development Bank will provide Vanuatu $10m to strengthen project delivery, disaster resilience and safeguards, including support for monitoring and procurement systems. Pacific El Niño pressure: While focused on PNG, the coverage underscores the wider region’s El Niño-driven drought and food-security risks that Vanuatu planners will be watching closely. Biodiversity and oceans: Fiji joined an international effort to protect the ocean’s “twilight zone,” urging precaution against threats like deep-sea mining and expanding research.