By 2030, reduce priority pollution risks to biodiversity and people through stronger discharge compliance, waste prevention and collection, control of plastics and hazardous chemicals, and monitoring of affected rivers, coasts and settlements. Update the national waste and pollution strategy beyond its 2017–2026 period and implement relevant chemicals obligations through verified national measures.                                     

The main policy measures and actions proposed for Solomon Islands include:

• Strengthen pollution controls and enforcement: Improve environmental standards, development consent conditions, inspections and compliance measures for mining, industry, infrastructure and other development activities, considering cumulative impacts.
• Improve waste and wastewater management: Strengthen waste collection, safe disposal, recycling, sanitation and wastewater treatment, and reduce plastic leakage into rivers and coastal waters.
• Reduce nutrient losses: Promote efficient fertiliser use, composting, nutrient recycling and measures to reduce agricultural runoff and untreated wastewater, aiming to halve excess nutrient losses by 2030.
• Reduce pesticide and hazardous chemical risks: Strengthen import controls, safe handling, storage and disposal; promote safer alternatives and integrated pest management; and reduce overall risks by at least 50% by 2030.
• Strengthen monitoring and reporting: Establish pollution baselines, identify priority sources and affected sites, and monitor water, soil and air quality to measure progress.
• Prevent and address pollution damage: Require appropriate pollution prevention, treatment and rehabilitation measures, and strengthen responses to spills and contaminated sites.
• Support coordinated and community action: Strengthen cooperation among relevant ministries, provincial governments, businesses and communities, supported by public awareness, training and sustainable financing.

This is taken into consideration through wider stake- holder consultations

This national target contributes to GBF Goal A by reducing pollution pressures that damage ecosystems and threaten native species. It supports ecosystem integrity, resilience and biodiversity conservation. It also contributes to GBF Goal B by safeguarding ecosystem functions and services, including clean water, healthy soils and productive coastal fisheries.
It directly addresses the following aspects of GBF Target 7:
- Reducing pollution risks and negative impacts from all sources to levels that are not harmful to biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services by 2030.
- Considering cumulative effects from multiple pollution sources.
- Reducing excess nutrient losses by at least 50%, including through efficient nutrient use and cycling.
- Reducing the overall risk from pesticides and highly hazardous chemicals by at least 50%.
The proposed waste management actions also support Target 7’s plastic pollution component. Explicitly including “preventing, reducing and working towards eliminating plastic pollution” in the national target would make this coverage clearer.

Proposed non-state commitments towards Solomon Islands’ pollution reduction target include:
- Businesses and industry: Prevent pollution, treat wastewater, safely manage hazardous chemicals and waste, and support rehabilitation of affected sites.
- Farmers and agricultural businesses: Improve fertiliser efficiency, reduce nutrient runoff, adopt integrated pest management and use safer alternatives to hazardous pesticides.
- Retailers, importers and tourism operators: Reduce single-use plastics, support reuse and recycling, and improve waste management.
- Communities and customary landowners: Participate in waste separation, clean-ups, pollution reporting and protection of rivers and coastal areas.
- NGOs, churches, women’s and youth groups: Support awareness, community waste management and pollution prevention initiatives.
- Research and academic institutions: Support pollution assessments, monitoring and research on affordable treatment and waste management solutions.
- Development partners and philanthropic organisations: Provide funding, equipment and technical assistance for pollution reduction programmes.
These are proposed contributions; they should be recorded as confirmed commitments once the relevant actors formally endorse them.

Yes. Additional means of implementation are needed to achieve Solomon Islands’ pollution reduction target by 2030. Priority needs include:
- Financial resources: Sustained funding for waste collection, recycling, safe disposal, wastewater treatment and pollution prevention across provinces.
- Technical support and infrastructure: Laboratory services, monitoring equipment, appropriate treatment technologies and facilities for hazardous waste management.
- Capacity building: Training for enforcement officers, provincial authorities, businesses, farmers and communities in pollution prevention and safe chemical management.
- Data and monitoring: Establishing baselines for pollution, nutrient losses and pesticide risks, and tracking progress towards the two 50% reduction commitments.
- Policy and institutional support: Strengthening pollution standards, enforcement, coordination and reporting among relevant agencies.
- Partnerships and public participation: Supporting community initiatives, private-sector investment and regional cooperation, particularly for recycling and waste that cannot be safely treated locally.