Without increasing its current marginal level of funding and commitment, pollution prevention can never become a core part of environmental policy. Within their environmental protection policy budgets, all countries need to substantially redirect their investment towards pollution prevention. Only after this is accomplished can we achieve our goal of economic development and environmental protection. All environmental management approaches need to be holistic in scope. Instead of solving the problem, this simply can result in the transfer of pollutants from one medium to another.
Pollution prevention requires investment in education.
It is critical that pollution prevention be a part of the curriculum in educational institutions at all levels. World leaders should work to ensure that pollution preventionconcepts and approaches are incorporated into educational curricula for all ages and disciplines. Whereas we have found the above principles to be true, we the undersigned do commit that in the following year , our governments will devote significant resources to the study, development and implementation of pollution prevention approaches in our country and globally. We also commit our country's resources to planning and participating with our fellow colleagues from around the world, in an International Pollution Prevention Summit that will be held in the Fall 1998. This Summit is expected to produce an International Protocol that will outline quantifiable pollution prevention goals and objectives for the Global community.