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The National Plan for the Development of Good Living proposes economic and trade policies such as Promote, manage and plan the integrated and sustainable management of water resources to guarantee the availability of water in sufficient quantity and quality to ensure food and energy sovereignty; expand national capacity for power-generation based on renewable sources; Promote the creation of a new international financial architecture under principles of social, gender and environmental justice; attract external saving for long-term sustainable projects; coordinate, on a convergent basis, the economic, social, cultural, migratory and environmental policies of countries that are members of the regional integration schemes in which Ecuador participates; include new participants in foreign trade, particularly micro, small, and medium-sized production units and the non-industrial sector, promoting environmentally responsible and job-creating initiatives; position the country, on the strength of its natural heritage, in the global mechanisms to combat climate change; Implement a tax-and-tariff policy to protect and promote domestic production, wealth redistribution, income and environmental responsibility; Generate incentives for environmentally responsible export products

As a GSP Plus beneficiary since 1 January 2006, Guatemala had to ratify and implement the international agreements on human and labour rights, environmental protection and governance.

A tool to ensure coherence between trade liberalisation and sustainable development are the ex-ante assessments of the potential effects of trade agreements on the pursuit of economic, social and environmental goals

USTR published the full text of the TPP Agreement on 5 November 2015, well in advance of the legal requirement, accompanied by detailed chapter summaries and fact sheets explaining the agreement's contents and benefits for workers, manufacturers, ranchers, farmers, services providers, and others, and explaining its achievements on issues such as maintaining a free and open Internet, raising labor and environmental standards, and helping American small and medium-sized businesses export.

In anticipation that its strategic geographical location and specifically its openness will achieve the desired purpose of facilitating investment, Honduras has compiled a portfolio of potential investments that includes projects in strategic areas for sustainable development such as urban road infrastructure, ports, airports, energy, services, agribusiness, mining and information technology.

In the following period, national agricultural and rural development policies will be focused on further modernization of Macedonian agriculture, increasing the competitiveness, improving farmers' incomes and social stability of rural population, and provision of food safety and security with sustainable management of natural resources .

Ministry of Environmental cooperates with Ministry of finance have “the exception of customs duty for equipment and materials that is used to prevent pollution ” program through Finance Ministerial Decree number 101/PMK 04/2007. A few equipments that get the exception of import duty, such as: aerator, belt press, chemical pump, pH control, decanter, air blower, biological , and screen. Those are categorized as a liquid pollutant control. Other equipments are: electrostatic precipitator, continuous electromagnetic. Those are categorized as air pollutants control. This mechanism is imposed on MFN basis.

() The Federal Government is building on the foundation laid by the Agricultural Transformation Agenda through the establishment of the Green Alternative or Agriculture Promotion Policy. This aims to enhance productivity by improving access to land, information, knowledge, and inputs. It also includes soil fertility, production management, storage, processing, marketing and trade. Private sector investment will support improved access to finance and agribusiness investment. The Agriculture Transformation Agenda is designed to realign the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to include institutional setting and roles, youth and women, infrastructure, climate smart agriculture, research and innovation, food, consumption and nutrition security. One key strategic activity is the integration of the agriculture value chain to improve access to markets, which will revitalize the Nigerian Commodity Exchange (NCX) to fast-track exports, and improve inventory management and storage capacity at the national level. Implementation of the totality of these initiatives is designed to address the continuing challenges of the sector, which include limited access to financing and inputs for farmers, serious threat of climate change on yield, limited access of agricultural outputs to the national and international markets, and output price instability.

There are several programmes in progress which focus, among other, (...) maintainable the sustainability of natural resources.

The main pillars that define the social and development model are:
- economic efficiency based on innovation and partnership;
- inclusion as the basis for social justice;
- regional development;
- the green economy and the sustainability of the development process.