A Green Growth Framework for Fiji: Restoring the Balance in Development that is Sustainable for Our Future, 2014

The Green Growth Framework for Fiji: Restoring the Balance in Development that is Sustainable for Our Future is intended to support and complement the Peoples Charter for Change, Peace and Progress and the 2010-2014 Roadmap for Democracy and Sustainable Socio-Economic Development and its successor national development documents. The Roadmap and this Green Growth Framework therefore share the same vision: A Better Fiji for All. 

The guiding principles adhered to by the Framework are: 

• Reducing carbon ‘footprints’ at all levels.
• Improving resource utilization and productivity (simply put, doing more with less).
• Developing a new integrated approach, with all stakeholders collaborating and collectively working together for the common good.
• Strengthening socio-cultural education of responsible environmental stewardship and civic responsibility.
• Increasing the adoption of comprehensive risk management practices.
• Supporting the adoption of sound environment auditing of past and planned developments, in order to provide support to initiatives which not only provide economic benefits but also improve the environmental situation.
• Enhancing structural reforms in support of fair competition and efficiency.
• Incentivizing investment in the rational and efficient use of natural resources. 

Ten (10) Thematic Areas have been identified to stimulate the development and/or strengthening of an integrated and cross-cutting national enabling environment for future development which is sustainable and can be sustained in Fiji. Each of the 10 Thematic Areas includes a section on key challenges and a way forward, including actions and time-bound indicators, intended to support and complement those in the 2010-2014 Roadmap and successor national development plans.