António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations made instructive remarks to close the high-level political dialogue of the Pacific Island Forum in May 2019. Among other things, he drew attention to ‘the clear connection between climate change and the situation in the oceans. Climate change is forcing people to move and there are problems of recognition of the rights of people forced to move by climate change, who are not considered refugees according to international law…We are not winning the battle of displacement and we need to be able to convert our efforts to take into account the questions of security, the questions of resilience, and all of the problems that we face’.