Environmental ministries may be interested, but may be marginalized within government. Some analysts suggest that in such situations an important role for development agencies can be to support analytical work that links environmental issues with key national priorities such as economic growth and poverty reduction (Ahmed and Triana, 2008 and other references in Slunge and Cesar, 2009). Such studies could examine, for example, the cost of environmental degradation, cost of climate change adaptation, or the potential for local economic activity as a result of new energy supply options.