Kiribati's National Sanitation Policy aims to deliver "effective sanitation for healthy communities, environments and sustainable development." One of the priority issues for sanitation that this policy addresses concerns the impacts of climate change on sanitation in Kiribati. In particular, the policy states that the government of Kiribati will undertake to assess the impacts of climate change on sanitation increase the resilience of Kiribati's sanitation system to the effects of climate change.