وفيما يتعلق بالتنمية المستدامة، حاولت معظم هذه البلدان معالجة جميع الجوانب الثلاثة للإطار العملي للتنمية المستدامة - الاقتصادي والاجتماعي والبيئي- بصورة متكاملة.
Related to sustainable development, most of these countries attempted to address in an integrated manner all three aspects of the sustainable development paradigm: - economic, social and environmental - in an integrated manner The European Community highlighted sustainable development as being amongst its fundamental objectives and noted the linkages to climate change.