24.1 Each Protocol Member State shall implement the St. George's Declaration of Principles for Environmental Sustainability in the OECS to minimize environmental vulnerability, improve environmental management and protect the region's natural (including historical and cultural) resource base for optimal social and economic benefits for Member States.
To meet those commitments, each Member State further agrees to work individually and jointly to implement shared goals for environmental management, specifically —
(a) to build the capacity of Member States and regional institutions to guide and support processes of sustainable development;
(b) to incorporate the objectives, perspectives, resources, knowledge and talents of all of society in environmental management;
(c) to achieve the long-term protection and sustained productivity of the region's natural resource base and of the ecosystem services it provides; and
(d) to ensure that natural resources contribute optimally and equitably to economic, social and cultural development.
24.2 The Member States agree to collaborate with national, regional and international institutions to assist the governments and their national partners to secure and maintain the technical, financial and human resources required to achieve the goals and targets of the Declaration.