This information has been used to identify households to receive benefits of the conditional cash transfer programme, PATH. It is noted above that already in 2001 there were proposals for environmental management systems that sought to utilise fully market incentives, especially because of the process of rapid liberalisation of the Jamaican economy that began in the 1980s and accelerated in the 1990s. Essentially these are price signals that favour allocation of investments in green technologies (e.g. solar water heating, windpower), and discourage petroleum-intensive consumption (e.g. ‘gas-guzzling’ vehicles).