Attempts should always be made to finance environmental investment from general revenues, but when earmarking is used in order to achieve certain environmental goals it should be carefully justified, for example by using the proceeds of environmental taxation to mitigate the prior environmental damage that prompted the tax in the first place.
وينبغي أن تبذل على الدوام محاولات لتمويل الاستثمار البيئي من الإيرادات العامة.