Many governments have claimed to make saving the environment a top priority over the past several years. However, a look at this chart shows that regardless of its volume, greenspeak is one thing and the politically risky business of taxing either industrial or individual pollution, is another. The following chart shows the change in environmentally related tax revenue on energy products, motor vehicles, transport, waste management, ozone depleting substances and other between 1995 and 2004 in select OECD countries

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