followed by discussion of country-initiatives and the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility launched 19 August 2008 to provide up to A$200 million over four years to help improve infrastructure in Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The United Nations announced that it would partner with Samoa to develop an Inter-Agency Climate Change Centre to help Pacific island nations combat the impacts of climate change in the region. In the 2013 forum, the Marshall Islands, supported by all other Pacific nations, claimed compensation from the United States for the nuclear tests conducted on the islands during the 1940s and 1950s. In the Nadi Bay declaration of 30 July 2019, the Pacific Islands Forum warned that coral atoll nations could be uninhabitable as early as 2030, expressed their deeply concern about a lack of "comprehension, ambition or commitment" from developed nations and called for an immediate reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. On 27 January 2021, the European Union and the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat agreed a project worth EUR 5.75 million to enhance the trade capacity of Pacific Island countries. The project titled “Strengthening Pacific Intra-Regional and International Trade (SPIRIT)” is designed to boost and increase intra-regional and international trade by strengthening institutional and technical capacity in the Pacific Island region. It will also facilitate the implementation of other trade agreements, in particular the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and of the Pacific's Aid-for-Trade Strategy 2020–2025. See also Forum Fisheries Agency Melanesian Spearhead Group Pacific Community Pacific Forum Line – a regional shipping company owned by 12 Pacific Islands Forum member countries Pacific Games Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO) Pacific Trade Invest Pacific Union Polynesian Leaders Group Trade bloc References External links "Backgrounder: Pacific Islands Forum", Xinhua, August 18, 2008 Articles on Pacific Islands Agricultural Trade at Agritrade International organizations based in Oceania New Zealand–Pacific relations Organisations based in Fiji Organizations established in 1971 Politics of Oceania United Nations General Assembly observers 1971 establishments in Oceania