Paragraph 18 Protection of the environment
United Kingdom
(1)
The Legislature and the Government shall, in all their decisions, have due regard to the need to foster and protect an environment that is not harmful to the health or well-being of present and future generations, while promoting justifiable economic and social development.
(2)
To this end the Legislature and the Government should adopt reasonable legislative and other measures to protect the built heritage, the wildlife and the land and sea biodiversity of the Islands that—
(a)
limit pollution and ecological degradation;
(b)
promote conservation and biodiversity; and
(c)
secure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources.