Report of the Fourteenth (14th) Meeting of the Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT): final outcomes statement. Suva, Fiji. 25-29 July, 2011

Abstract

"Failures to manage the environment and to sustain development threaten to overwhelm all countries. Environment and development are not separate challenges; they are inexorably linked. Development cannot subsist upon a deteriorating environmental resource base; the environment cannot be protected when growth leaves out of account the costs of environmental destruction. These problems cannot be treated separately by fragmented institutions and policies. They are linked in a complex system of cause and effect."