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Six Principles Of Sustainable Development
(ORTEE 1992)

The Ontario Round Table members believe that these goals are attainable, based on six fundamental principles that resulted from the Round Table's research and consultations:

  1. Anticipating and preventing problems is better than trying to react and fix them after they occur.
  2. Accounting must reflect all long-term environmental and economic costs, not just those of the current market.
  3. The best decisions are those based on sound, accurate, and up-to-date information.
  4. We must live off the interest our environment provides and not destroy its capital base.
  5. The quality of social and economic development must take precedence over quantity.
  6. We must respect nature and the rights of future generations.