Taking into account the information provided on the initiative by the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants to review the interlinkages between climate change and persistent organic pollutants in support of the work of the coordination group of the global monitoring plan on persistent organic pollutants,

Noting the outcome of the study by the expert group on climate change and persistent organic pollutants convened by the Secretariat,

Invites the Conference of the Parties to forward the outcome of the study by the expert group to the Committee for further consideration of the study’s possible implications for the Committee’s work.