Climate & Ocean Resilience
Turning frontline experience of rising seas into legislation, finance and a united Pacific position that the rest of the world cannot talk over.
Est. 2026 · The Blue Pacific
A network of young elected representatives across Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia, turning the world's largest ocean into its loudest generation of leadership.
About the network
More than half of the Pacific Islands region is under thirty, yet young people remain rare on the benches where laws are made. PIYPN brings together the young members of parliament, assembly members and elected representatives already inside those chambers, so they do not have to lead alone.
We are a peer network for the region's youngest legislators: a place to share bills that worked, to build a common Pacific voice on climate and the ocean, and to bring more young people through the door behind us. Membership is open to serving elected representatives aged 35 and under from Pacific Island states.
PIYPN is a newly forming network. Member profiles and events shown here are illustrative while founding members are confirmed.
What we work on
Turning frontline experience of rising seas into legislation, finance and a united Pacific position that the rest of the world cannot talk over.
Lowering the barriers that keep young people out of parliament: candidate training, mentorship and reform of the rules that quietly favour incumbency.
Open budgets, honest institutions and accountable government, championed by the generation that will inherit the results.
One ocean, many nations. We move as a bloc so small states carry the weight of a continent in every room that matters.
One ocean. Many nations.
Laws for islanders not yet born
In the Pacific, the long term is not a distant idea. Rising seas, the health of the ocean, the future of our fisheries and decisions on seabed mining will decide what kind of islands our grandchildren inherit, and in some places whether they can stay on them at all.
PIYPN, part of the Centre for Youth Policy's family of young parliamentarian networks, works with its members to build lasting parliamentary institutions for future generations.
Vanuatu & the ICJ
Law students at the University of the South Pacific started the campaign in 2019. Vanuatu took it to the UN General Assembly, which in 2023 asked the International Court of Justice what States owe present and future generations on climate. The Court gave its advisory opinion on 23 July 2025 and treated intergenerational equity as a guide to reading those obligations.
Tuvalu Trust Fund
Set up to secure the country's long-term financial viability, so today's budget does not spend tomorrow's savings.
Kiribati Revenue Equalisation Reserve Fund
Built from phosphate income so the islands would still have a reserve after the phosphate ran out. It did, in 1979. The fund remains.
There is no single model yet. Young Pacific legislators should help shape what comes next.
We help members set up cross-party groups for future generations, sized for small chambers where every member already carries several jobs. Malta shows a lean model can work in a small state.
We work with members on motions that recognise duties to future generations, on intergenerational impact assessments, and on long-term well-being bills that fit Pacific constitutions.
We support members to test real budgets, fisheries deals, seabed mining proposals and trust fund rules for their long-term impact, and to publish what they find.
We are developing regular reports with our members on how the long term is faring, linked to the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent: ocean health, climate resilience, debt, schooling and jobs.
We connect members with the people who already do this work, from Wales and Finland to Malta, and will take the case to the Pacific Islands Forum and to the annual Presiding Officers and Clerks Conference.
Are you an elected representative aged 35 or under in a Pacific Island state who wants to champion future generations in your House? We would like to hear from you.
Register interestWhat membership gives you
A direct line to peers facing the same votes, the same small-state constraints and the same climate frontlines. You stop improvising alone and start borrowing what already worked next door.
Regional convenings where young legislators set a shared Pacific agenda, trade strategy off the record, and welcome the next intake of members into the room.
Model bills, plain-language briefings and what-worked case studies from across the region, ready to adapt to your own chamber and your own constituents.
We carry your work across the region and into the forums where Pacific voices get talked over. One young MP is easy to ignore. A network of them is not.
Candidate training and mentorship so more young people follow you through the door, and the benches keep looking more like the islands they serve.
A common position on climate, ocean and youth that lets fourteen small states negotiate with the weight of a continent behind every word.
The people
One founding profile is confirmed below. The remaining seats are illustrative placeholders while members are announced.
Save the date
The inaugural gathering of the network. Three days of young Pacific legislators sharing what works, drafting a common agenda for the region, and welcoming the next intake of members.
Get involved
If you serve, or have stood, as an elected representative aged 35 or under in a Pacific Island state, register your interest and we will be in touch as the network is formed.
Supporters, partners and youth organisations are welcome too.