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In preparing this latest Sustainable Development Strategy, WD has concentrated on implementing changes to the WD SDS based on recommendations from the Commissioner as outlined in the documents entitled Moving Up the Learning Curve: The Second Generation of Sustainable Development Strategies, and Greening Government Operations: When Will the Government Measure Up? The Commissioner has urged departments to implement changes to their SDS based on lessons learned during the development and implementation of their first SDS. Based on this advice WD has focused on the following key areas in preparation for the current SDS:

assessing the initial WD SDS to determine what we achieved, what has changed and what may need to be done differently and to make this assessment available in the consultations leading to the second SDS;
strengthening the planning phase by drawing clear links between WD’s activities, the significant aspects and impacts of those activities on the environment and sustainable development and the priorities for action (goals, objectives and targets) required to measure environmental performance and contribution to sustainable development; and
accelerating the development of WD’s environmental management system (EMS) to support WD’s SDS implementation, consultation, monitoring, measurement, reporting and review and improvement processes.