Pacific governments adopted the Pacific Regional Guidance on Planned Relocation (PAC-GIPR) in March 2026, creating the world's first coordinated regional framework to manage the long-term movement of communities threatened by rising seas, coastal erosion, and intensifying storms. The guidance treats relocation as a last resort and places community consent, Indigenous rights, and cultural preservation at its core — drawing lessons from earlier cases such as Fiji's village of Vunidogoloa, which was moved inland in 2014 in one of the region's first government-supported climate relocations. With low-lying nations including Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Marshall Islands facing existential pressure from sea-level rise, the framework signals a regional shift from reactive disaster response toward long-term climate planning, and may serve as a model for vulnerable coastal communities worldwide.