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Much of the literature concerned with the politics of rising seas is about the involvement of states and others in the processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its annual Conference of the Parties (COP). Although nonstate actors, including international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), are acknowledged as being part of these processes, it has often been claimed that the voices of local NGOs are absent from debates on vulnerability and resilience to climate change, apparently as though there were no debates taking place elsewhere. This chapter addresses this absence by explicitly acknowledging that rising sea levels and the consequent changes to local lives are the focus of discussions beyond the UNFCCC. It shows how the politics of vulnerability are clear in messages around mitigation of climate change, where the audiences are foreign governments, institutions at a transnational level, and activists and interested citizens from around the world. It explores the politics of resilience in messages about adaptation to climate change disseminated by and through local NGOs, sometimes in collaboration with international NGOs, where the key audience is the population of island states. The focus here is on small-island developing states (SIDS) in the Pacific (see also Chapters 3, 6, and 18), the engagement of their local NGOs with issues of sea-level rise and their involvement with other organizations and alliances, including international NGOs, specifically the Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) and the Climate Action Network (CAN). CAN is a worldwide organization that aims to promote …