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Last year brought both successes and disappointments in global efforts to tackle the triple planetary crisis: the crisis of climate change; the crisis of nature and biodiversity loss and desertification; and the crisis of pollution and waste.

Most countries have met their reductions in methyl bromide targets under the Montreal Protocol by adoption of alternative fumigants in the soil sector, such as fumigant mixtures containing chloropicrin or by applying consecutive treatments with other fumigants to increase their reliability. Adoption of transition strategies that reduce the rate of MB used per unit area of soil such as by using MB/chloropicrin mixtures and/or allow reduced rates of MB application by adoption of barrier films (e.g. VIF) have also been used widely. Most applications granted Critical Use Exemptions at the EMOP use these transition strategies

This paper was initially prepared to stimulate the discussion of sustainable development priorities in the South Pacific at a meeting of civil society convened by UNEP, 12-13 November 2003. It has been revised based on input from this meeting and comments received from reviewers

This report documents 13 coastal coral reef management initiatives, operated under the ICRAN framework. Although all case studies were formally accepted due to unforseen circumstances/political tensions only eight of these initiatives were presented at the international tropical marine ecosystem management symposium.