Prime Minister Anthony Albanese quickly changes shirt after fashion faux pas at crucial summit

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was caught in an awkward moment when he arrived at a crucial summit with Pacific Island leaders in the wrong shirt.

The Pacific Islands Forum in the Solomon Islands last night drew in 18 leaders from across the region to sign a multimillion-dollar agreement on a resilience fund.

Albanese walked into the meeting in a pink shirt, not the matching navy blue shirt most of the other leaders were wearing for the event.

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He looked around as the remaining leaders filed into the room in their matching shirts before realising his mistake.

Video of the forum showed him sticking out in his pink shirt within a row full of his counterparts.

He quickly escaped before arriving back in the room shortly later in the same blue shirt.

Australia joined 17 other nations in inking the Pacific Resilience Facility - a fund for the countries to access to create solutions to the heightened impact of climate change in the region.

The deal has been 10 years in the making as Pacific countries continue to face an existential threat due to rising sea levels, extreme weather and harm to marine life.

Albanese has agreed to commit an initial $100 million to the fund.

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"For the small island nations of the Pacific, climate change is an existential threat," he said at a press conference yesterday.

"This is more than a fund, though. It's a promise to Pacific communities that they will not face climate threats alone."

Some Pacific Island leaders, however, urged Albanese to do more given that Australia is one of the world's largest fossil fuel exporters.

"If Australia makes a change for the better, I think it would lessen that tension," Vanuatu's climate minister, Ralph Regenvanu, said.

"If it doesn't, the relationship will still be there, but there'll still be that tension."

The Pacific leaders also declared the Blue Pacific as an "ocean of peace" while calling on the international community to respect national sovereignty and Pacific-led approaches to peace and sovereignty.

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