Integration of positive approaches 140. In order to achieve a breakthrough in environmental protection in the CEE countries, an integration of different interests and approaches supporting environmental improvements must take place. The various groups should not focus on their different motives, but rather should search for measures that yield mutually agreeable results. The motives for taking environmental protection measures should be seen as less important than the real impacts of these different behaviors or actions. The readiness to negotiate and to search for environmentally beneficial compromises should become widespread among the different environmental interest groups.
Environmental lobbies have many common goals.
One of them is to support the integration of environmental protection and economic development. The various interest groups should formulate different alternatives for successfully accomplishing this integration. Instead of stressing discrepancies in formulating environmental conditions for economic development, compromises should be sought which satisfy diverse interests. Achieving sustainable development in the CEE countries will heavily depend on solving this problem of cooperation among different environmental lobbies.