The Clean Air Action Group (CAAG) is concerned with the relationship between economic policy and environmental issues, working on the international, national and sectoral levels. CAAG works to map-out, as well as to inform the public and decision-makers, what opportunities are available for economic policy to protect our environment; and how the aspects of environmental protection can be built into economic policy. Our most important areas of activity--which in large part are determined on the basis of the recommendations of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)—are the following:

1. Determining environmental damage--in monetary terms also where possible--all the more precisely in order that the public can fully understand the damage and that the costs can be built into prices.

2. Stating, precisely and in detail, the environmental effects of state subsidies
 in order that such subsidies be eliminated as soon as possible.

3. Sensible management of natural resources and conservation of biological diversity in the course of economic activities.

4. Coordination of economic competitiveness with environmental protection.

5. Wide-spread and innovative use of economic instruments in order to obtain the best environmental results possible; this includes reform of the tax system.

6. Bringing the economic instruments used in the interest of environmental protection into compatibility with the factors affecting the formation and redistribution of personal income.

7. Integration of the goals of employment policy with those of environmental policy.

8. Protection against the detrimental effects of globalization and better utilization of the positive effects.

9. Collection and use of the indicators relating to economic and environmental interdependence and to their related factors.

10. Review of the institutional systems of economic and environmental policy and promotion of their reform.