environmental protection expenditure in industry – the swedish approach
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Environmental Protection Expenditure in industry – The Swedish approach. Nancy Steinbach Third International Conference on Establishment Surveys: Survey Methods for Businesses, Farms, and Institutions (ICES-III) Montreal, Canada 22 June 2007. Overview. What? Why? How? Who? Potential?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Environmental Protection Expenditure in industry – The Swedish approach
Nancy SteinbachThird International Conference on Establishment Surveys:
Survey Methods for Businesses, Farms, and Institutions (ICES-III)Montreal, Canada 22 June 2007
Overview
• What?
• Why?
• How?
• Who?
• Potential?
What is an EPE?
Environmental protection expenditureEnvironmental protection expenditure= =
Investments + current expenditure for environmental Investments + current expenditure for environmental protectionprotection
Actions to reduce or minimise pollution that have Actions to reduce or minimise pollution that have occurred within the own production occurred within the own production process/activity.process/activity.
Why compile EPE?
• evaluating costs of complying with environmental regulations
• improves the design and implementation of environmental regulations within the EU
• indicating what the society do against environmental problems
• analysing to what extent the pollutant pay and how the competitive powers of the industries are effected
• Structural Business Statistics, Council Regulation No 58/97
How to compile EPE?
Survey based approach
• Paper questionnaire, Internet questionnaire
• Web-site available: www.mkost.scb.seResponse rate
50
55
60
65
70
75
80
85
90
95
1999/2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006*
%
2006 preliminary
How – Methodology
Population: • NACE 10-14, 15-36, 40-41 (Mining and Quarrying,
Manufacturing and Electricity and water supply industries)
Sample:• Random sample
• More than 50 employees
• Co-ordinated samples – Business Register
How – Methodology cont…
• Program designed to compute standard error estimates and national totals (CLAN)
• Makes estimations for those industries whom are not selected
• Makes estimations for them whom did not answer
• Enumeration variable: number of employees
Who is using the result?Internationally:Internationally:• OECD OECD • European Commission: Eurostat, DG Environment, DG European Commission: Eurostat, DG Environment, DG
Enterprise, European Environment Agency Enterprise, European Environment Agency • Researchers, InstitutesResearchers, Institutes
Nationally:Nationally:• EnterprisesEnterprises• ResearchersResearchers• Governmental departments, Environment Protection Governmental departments, Environment Protection
AgencyAgency
Eurostat: Environmental Protection Expenditure in industry in the European Union SIF 9/2005
SCB: Environmental economic profile: pulp and paper industry
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
number of enterprises
number of employees
environmental taxes
net income
value added
gross investments
EP investments
%
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
Potential of EPE in Sweden…
Increase coverage of Sweden’s economic actors:
• Public sector,
• Specialised producers,
• Services;
for the compilation of Environmental Protection
Expenditure Accounts (EPEA)
…because of…
..that means:
• Complete coverage of Sweden’s economy for environmental protection…
• That is in line with environmental accounts…• That is in line with national accounts.
• Harmonised approaches enables reliable inter-linkages of the environment and the economy to be evaluated and analysed.
