Republic of the Marshall Islands : National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the Stockholm Convention on POPs : final report

It gives me great pleasure on behalf of the government and people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, to endorse this National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. As a small island developing state, the Republic of the Marshall Islands faces particular vulnerabilities such as fragile ecosystems, limited supplies of fresh drinking water and limited areas of land suitable for development. For these reasons it is very important that our natural resources be protected from possible contamination by persistent organic pollutants, and other hazardous chemicals.