The thousands of Pacific islands are at the forefront of climate change. This massive region of numerous low and coral islands is already experiencing the dramatic effects of sea-rising and the growing strengths and severity of cyclones and droughts. Populations have to move their settlements to higher locations, protect their houses and gardens from cyclones and salination, migrate to other islands and adapt their subsistence activities and their ways of living to changing conditions. At the same time, myriads of NGOs and newly created government agencies attempt to assist local populations during these changes as well as disseminate knowledge on the origins and consequences of greenhouse gases. In this seminar we will introduce the Pacific region as well as the climate change issue in general, before exploring Pacific peoples’ specific experiences, conceptions and reactions to environmental and related social changes, as well as their reappropriation of the climate change issue in general.