In August 2013, the law firm DLA Piper ran ‘Changing Winds: Climate Change & the Law’ workshops in Suva, Fiji and Apia, Samoa. The workshops brought together lawyers, academics,  students, NGO workers, government officers, town planners and other professionals from East and West Samoa, Fiji, Tuvalu, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. This report contains abstracts and articles from the presenters’ as well as findings from the event as a whole.