02.10.2025
The Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions (PASAI) has published the report Adapting to Climate Change: Building the Pacific's Future from the Cooperative Audit on Climate Change Adaptation Actions about how government agencies in nine Pacific Island countries are responding to climate-related issues. The report is based on audits of responses to climate-related matters by government agencies in the participating Pacific Island countries.
Auditors from the audit offices of the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu participated in the global cooperative audit initiative.
Audit offices selected a topic that is most pressing to their country: examining how well their governments are managing water resources, implementing climate change adaptation plans or actions, or taking action to adapt to the impact of sea level rise and coastal erosion.
The final report identified that governments need to act now to:
The INTOSAI Development Initiative and WGEA were both involved in providing training and audit support to the Pacific Island audit offices.
The regional report and links to individual audit reports and videos from contributing auditors are at pasai.org/regional-reports.
A global report from all INTOSAI regions will be presented at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in November 2025.
The INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA) aims to increase the expertise in environmental auditing and to enhance environmental governance with high-quality contribution and visibility by both members of the Working Group and non–member SAIs. Currently the INTOSAI WGEA consists of 86 member countries.
