Enabling activities for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): National Implementation Plan for Mauritius

Within the overall objective of the Stockholm Convention, which is to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the objectives of the project are to (i) prepare the ground for implementation of the Convention in Mauritius; (ii) assist Mauritius in meeting its reporting and other obligations under the Convention; (iii) strengthen Mauritius’s national capacity to manage POPs and chemicals generally as articulated in Chapter 19 of Agenda 21 and (iv) enable Mauritius to make an informed decision on the ratification of the Stockholm Convention.