Environmental Education . Education, especially from an early age, has a significant effect on how people form attitudes toward the environment, and is thus crucial. Educational programs designed to enhance awareness of environmental issues and ethics must be developed and applied at all levels of society through all available practical means. Governments should make special efforts to financially support such educational programs. International Cooperation .
Nations share common responsibilities for preserving Earth's environment.
This requires active involvement in regional and international cooperative efforts and collaborative implementation of environmentally-sound policies, while complying with established multilateral agreements. Moreover, in order to further international cooperation, newly developed scientific information as well as experience in environmental and development policy-making should be exchanged worldwide to facilitate efforts for global environmental protection and improvement and to provide early warning of impending problems. Environmentally-Sound Lifestyles . All members of society must cultivate lifestyles that avoid waste and excess. Bearing in mind that Earths resources are limited, each person must avoid a culture of extravagant material consumption and pursue ways to preserve the planet by means of environmentally-sound consumption patterns.