Placeholder story for staging. SUVA, 18 September 2026 — Leaders attending a Pacific island forum session on Thursday adopted staging rules for a voluntary climate-adaptation project registry designed to help small island administrations present coastal protection, water security, and resilient housing proposals to blended-finance partners in a common format. The decision, outlined in a chair’s summary, creates a listing template covering project scope, hazard baselines, safeguard checklists, and indicative financing mixes. Participation is voluntary. The registry would not itself disburse funds or replace national budget processes. “Many of our projects are bankable in concept but hard for external partners to compare,” said Minister Lani Tevaga, speaking for the forum’s climate-finance working group. The summary said the registry would initially accept projects above an indicative threshold of $5 million in total cost, with a simplified track for smaller community-scale works to be designed later. Civil-society groups urged clearer community consultation standards. No sovereign debt restructuring or new regional bond program was attached to the decision. The chair’s summary set a six-month window to finalize the digital template and a twelve-month review of early listings. Global Brief will update this fictional staging story if the host institution is named or if the first pilot listings are published.