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| | Environment Directorate:Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The Environment Directorate provides governments with the analytical basis to develop policies that are effective and economically efficient, including through country performance reviews, data collection, policy analysis, projections and modelling, and the development of common approaches. |
 | | However, untangling and assessing the effects of subsidies on the environment is a complex task. |
 | | In response to this request, the Environment Policy Committee held a High-Level Special Session on 14 April 2005 on the costs of inaction with respect to key environmental challenges (climate change, biodiversity loss and the human health impacts from pollution). |
| www.oecd.org /department/0,2688,en_2649_33713_1_1_1_1_1,00.html (657 words) |
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