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 resource stocks, expenditures for environmental protection and resource management would gradually be built into the budgets of those agencies for measures to prevent damage. The unavoidable costs of environmental and resource management would thus be paid only once.

6.2. International Action
100. Developing countries, as stated earlier, need a significant increase in financial support from international sources for environmental restoration, protection. and improvement and to help them through the necessary transition to sustainable development.

101. At the global level, there is an extensive institutional capacity to channel this support. This consists of the United Nations and its specialized agencies: the multilateral development banks, notably the World Bank; other multilateral development cooperation organizations, such as those ,-if the European Economic Community; national development assistance agencies, most of whom cooperate within the framework of the Development Assistance Committee of OECD or of OPEC; and international groups, such as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, that play an important and influence on the quality and nature of development assistance. Together, the development organizations and agencies; are responsible for the transfer of about $35 billion of ODA annually to developing countries. In addition, they are the source of most technical assistance and policy advice and support to developing countries,

102. These orgaizations and agencies are the principal instruments through which the development partnership between industrial and developing countries operates and, collectively, their influence is substantial and pervasive. It, is imperative that they play a leading role in helping developing countries make the transition to sustainable development. Indeed, it /…