Environment secretariats should be strengthened and made more autonomous, with independent investigative abilities. Trade and investment panels should coordinate their work with the environmental secretariats to insure consideration of environmental values. Second, participating governments must pay greater attention to implementing details. They must follow through with procedural rules and practices that give substance to formal mandates. Third, governments must invest additional resources in the institutions charged with monitoring and enforcing these agreements.
Sustainable development requires no less.
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