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Humanity is waging war on nature. This is senseless and suicidal. The consequences of our recklessness are already apparent in human suffering, towering economic losses and the accelerating erosion of life on Earth. This report represents a scientific blueprint for howclimate change, biodiversity loss and pollution can be tackled jointly within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. The report is a synthesis based on evidence from global environmental assessments.

The Fifth South Pacific Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas held in Nuku'alola. Kingdom of Tonga, on 4-8 October 1993, continued the series of conferences held in Now Zealand (1975), Australia (1979), Western Samoa (1985) and Vanuatu (1989). Until the conference in Western Samoa, the series was known as the 'National Parks and Reserves' conferences. At the Western Samoan conference the name was changed to the present one, to better reflect the importance of the wider issues of biological diversity conservation to the region.

The Third Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the convention on conservation of Nature in the south pacific (apia Convention) was convened in Apra. Western Samoa, on 5 october 1995. Representatives of the following contracting parties attended: Australia. Fiji. France and western Samoa. Other SPREP members represented were New Zealand. United States of America nad Vanuatu. Also in attendance were observers from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A list of participants is at Annex I.

This Manual was designed to improve and facilitate use of the UNEP Guidelines on Compliance with and Enforcement of MEAs through a variety of means. Its organization follows that of the UNEP Guidelines, with the first part of the Manual devoted to compliance and the second part to enforcement. The Manual is intended for use by a wide audience: treaty negotiators, political officials, lawyers, police, customs officers, researchers, and legal drafters in governmental, non-governmental, academic, and professional institutions. Considering the breadth of topics and audiences entailed, this Manual is a reference tool. It is not meant to be read cover-to-cover.

In 1998, the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), organised a training workshop in Community-based Ecotourism for Conservation Areas. The workshop was held at Lonnoc Resort (Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu). The 1998 workshop was attended mainly by representatives from the Conservation Area projects supported by the South Pacific Biodiversity Conservation Programme (SPBCP), plus six Melanesian focal points for marine and coral reef conservation.

The Pacific Island climate Change Programme (PICCAP) is a regional Climate Change Enabling Activities project. It involves ten Pacific Island countries (Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu) and is coordinated and executed by the South Pacific Regional Environment.

The main objective of the sixth RMSD, is to review and consider the draft Strategic Action Plan for the Development of Meteorology in the Pacific region (SDMP) prepared by die SPREP Secretariat.