Making progress within and beyond borders
Today's challenges provide the chance to develop global mechanisms for sustainable development. They can act as springboards towards higher resource productivity and efficiency, environmentally friendly technologies, and sustainable habits and lifestyles. The above discussion brings up a number of issues that require thorough considerations. However, these are still on the nature of individual components of the policy framework, not on the framework itself. It may be useful to provide a brief reflection on the strategic vision that can hold these diverse thoughts together.