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With a cup of kava in hand, King Charles raises the traditional pacific drink to the people of Samoa, cheering in both English and Samoan.
"May God bless this ava, manuia."
After finishing his three-day visit to Australia, King Charles and Queen Camilla are now in Samoa to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, where they will meet with leaders from 56 Commonwealth nations, including Australia.
This is also the first time when the Commonwealth meeting is held in a pacific developing state, and it's expected that climate change will be on the top of the agenda.
Feleti Teo is the Prime Minister of Tuvalu, a south Pacific nation with a population of just over 11 thousand.
At a forum session, he talks about the challenges that Tuvalu faces due to rising sea levels.
"Our current prediction by credible climate change scientists predicting that in only 26 years to come, by the year 2050, that's only two decades to go, that capital island of Tuvalu, Funafuti, 50 percent of its territory will be regularly flooded by regular tides and surges. Another 50 years to that, the predictions are that more than 90 per cent of our capital land territory would suffer the same fate."
In March, Tuvalu signed a security and climate pact with Australia, as rising sea levels threaten the country's existence.
Australia also announced $110-million-dollars in funding development initiatives for Tuvalu, and promised to bolster Tuvalu's coastal defenses, as well as open a resettlement pathway to 280 Tuvalu citizens each year.
But Mr Teo says Australia could have done more, especially when it comes to keeping its commitment to climate change.
"My view of that commitment is that Australia not only provides or has given that legal commitment, but it's highly morally obliged, to ensure that whatever action it does, would not compromise on its commitment that it has provided in terms of climate impacts on Tuvalu."
In particular, he points out Australia's failure to meet its emissions reduction goal.
"As you know the current Australian government commit to Net Zero by 2050. Obviously, the activity and action that are reported in the report that is being launched are obviously not consistent with the broader spirit of achieving that objective."
In response to concerns from Pacific nations, Foreign Minister Penny Wong says she's aware of Australia's responsibilities.
"It is the case that we have to transit our economy, and we will do that, we are doing that, that is a big task when we came to government, I think some 30 per cent of electricity was from renewable sources and obviously, our target is 82 per cent by 2030, that's very big turnaround, we are on the way to doing that. But I would make this point, the whole world needs to work to reduce our emissions."
But some experts are worried the Commonwealth Meeting will achieve little on climate change, because the big emitters are not part of the discussion.
Dr Meg Keen is a Senior Fellow at Lowy Institute's Pacific Island Program.
She says neither China nor the US are in the Commonwealth Meeting, meaning the discussion about climate change will be limited.
"For the issue of climate change, the disadvantage is the two biggest emitters are not present, so really they've got to take that momentum to a global forum to get the kind of impact that they're gonna need if we are going to have climate action."
Besides climate change, gender equality, economic growth and health are topics that the Commonwealth meeting will be focusing on.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived in Samoa, and he's expected to meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, leaders of other developed states of the Commonwealth, and pacific nation leaders.
Dr Keen says one issue of the Commonwealth as an international association is that while some of its members receive economic opportunities to grow, these opportunities are not expanding to other nations within the Commonwealth.
"You will see some talk about, can we as community, open those economic doors wider, because that's what the youth needs, and that's what the women needs, for economic opportunities, which are two key themes."
