The Coastal, Estuarine and Marine Chapter relates to a number of Tasmania Together goals and standards. Maintaining the condition of Tasmania's coastal, estuarine and marine environment and ensuring effective responses to the issues raised in the chapter are necessary to progress towards a number of Tasmania Together goals and standards, including the following.

• Goal 1: Ensure all Tasmanians have a reasonable standard of living with regard to food, shelter, transport, justice, education, communication, health and community services.
• Goal 12: Provide all Tasmanians with the opportunity to participate in decisions that affect their lives.
• Goal 13: Have a system of government that is open, seeks and listens to people's views and ideas, and uses them in decision making at all levels.
• Goal 20: Promote our island advantages including our 'clean-green' image, natural resources, location and people.
• Standard 1: To maintain and improve quarantine services.
• Goal 22: Value, protect and maintain our natural diversity
• Standard 1: To maintain or improve natural heritage including biodiversity, geodiversity and landscapes.
• Goal 23: Ensure there is a balance between environmental protection and economic and social development.
• Standard 1: To understand, protect and manage our globally significant natural and physical resources.
• Standard 2: To continually improve effective management systems and practices.
• Standard 3: To have a clean and green image in the international community.
• Standard 4: To achieve sustainable and appropriate land use.
• Goal 24: Ensure our natural resources are managed in a sustainable way now and for future generations.
• Standard 1: To limit conversion of land with native vegetation.
• Standard 2: To sustainably manage old-growth forests and to phase out clear felling in those forests
• Standard 3 To reduce air and water pollution
• Standard 4: To develop and implement fire management regimes that are appropriate for protecting environmental, economic and social values.
• Standard 5: Reduce reliance on chemical use by primary, secondary and tertiary industry and the domestic sector.
• Standard 6: To mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting substances and where possible, reduce their emissions.
• Standard 7: To maintain and enhance the productive capacity of soil and water.
• Standard 8: To minimise material consumption and waste generation.
• Standard 9: To reduce the adverse impacts of pests, weeds and pathogens.
• Standard 10: To maintain the Tasmanian wilderness resource and improve its quality.
• Standard 11: To optimise public use of the natural environment consistent with maintaining environmental values.
• Standard 12: To maximise the use of renewable energy.