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The National Environment Strategy 2017-2022 is a commitment by the Republic of the Marshall Islands to conserve and improve its environment for current and future generations. In the RMI State of Environment Report (SoE) 2016 (SPREP), the Office of Environment Protection and Policy Coordination (OEPPC) worked with other sectors and partners to identify its shortfalls. A strategy to address these shortfalls was developed through the National Environment Management Strategy (NEMS) 2017-2022. The NEMS 2017-2022 promotes sustainable development and integrates environment conservation and the proper governance of development efforts

This document provides a plan to protect and enhance the cloud forests of Rarotonga so that their indigenous ecosystems, habitats for endemic species, and water supply functions are preserved in perpetuity.

Our current economic models are unlikely to allow us to achieve the multiple goals the international community has set, including Agenda 21 at the Rio Earth Summit and the Millennium Development Goals set out at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Nearly twenty years after Rio, we have come to realize that a more sophisticated economic lens and a more evolved economic model are needed if we are collectively to thrive over the coming years and decades.

In Tonga, IWP targets pilot projects that address waste management with a view to improving freshwater and marine resources. To facilitate the IWP in Tonga, the Government of Tonga, through the Department of Environment and the IWP Project Coordination Unit, based at SPREP, have commissioned this inventory of environment related legislation and institutions in Tonga.

As island states located within the world's largest ocean, the member countries of SPREP are over- whelmingly dependent on shipping. Despite the ben- efits and necessity of shipping, this human use of the ocean cau also cause a range of sometimes severe environmental impacts.