“The main goal for me is to understand the impact of climate change more deeply and also help the local community to adapt to it to sort of create their own cultural changes that we see.”

Willy Missack is a Doctorate Student at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. He is advisor to the Vanuatu Climate Action Network secretariat working with the community-based organization (CBO). He is also Vanuatu’s Negotiator on Loss and Damage and Founder & Executive Director of Learn to Serve Vanuatu, a youth-led CBO. We speak to him about his upbringing and how he aims to uplift communities to have agency over how they manage climate adaptation back home in Vanuatu.