Environmental protection expenditure 2023
Increased environmental protection expenditures 2023
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2024-10-10 8.00
Swedish industry’s total expenditures increase by 11 percent 2023 compared to 2022. Both investments and current expenditures contributes to this increase.
– The current expenditures in environmental protection show an increase by 13 percent whilst investments increase by 7 percent, says Frida Hellman, analyst at Statistics Sweden's environmental accounts, and thus total expenditures in environmental protection increases.
Swedish industry’s total environmental protection expenditures amount to 26 billion SEK in 2023. This corresponds to an increase of 11 percent compared to 2022. Environmental protection investments account for 36 percent of total environmental protection expenditures, while current expenditures account for 64 percent. In 2023, investments amount to 9 billion SEK, which is an increase of 7 percent compared to 2022. Current expenditures increase by 13 percent and thus, they amount to 19 billion SEK.
Increased investments in three environmental domains
In 2023, the environmental protection investments increase in three of the six environmental domains. The investments in the environmental domain air increases by 1 718 million SEK compared to 2022, and amounts to 56 percent of total investments from the Swedish industry 2023. Increased investments can also be seen for biodiversity and amounts to 120 million SEK. Investments in other environmental domains (other*) also increase in 2023 compared to 2022, and amounts to 313 million SEK.
Investments to water, land and groundwater, and waste decrease compared to 2022 by 39, 26 and 11 percent. The largest investments in environmental protection amongst these domains is water, which amounted to 20 percent.
*The environmental domains biodiversity (protection of species), land & groundwater, and other were previously (until 2015) reported together as one domain named other.
Current expenditures on environmental protection focused on waste management and wastewater management
The largest current expenditures in 2023 are seen for waste management and wastewater management. Expenditures on waste management and wastewater management account for 31 percent and 24 percent, respectively, of total current expenditure for environmental protection in 2023.
The highest increase in current environmental expenditure in 2023 compared to 2022 appears in other environmental domains (domain other*) and air, and amounted to 2 and 0.5 billion SEK.
*The environmental domains biodiversity (protection of species), land & groundwater, and other were previously (until 2015) reported together as one domain named other.
Total environmental protection expenditure by NACE industry
Three of the 18 industrial branches included in the survey account for more than 50 percent of total environmental protection expenditures. The electricity, gas and heating industry (NACE D35) has the highest total environmental protection expenditure, which accounts for 29 percent of total environmental protection expenditures in the Swedish industry. The second largest contribution comes from Pulp and paper (NACE C17) which account for 13 percent of total environmental protection expenditures in the Swedish industry. The third largest contribution comes from Food products, beverages and tobacco (NACE C10-12) which account for 12 percent. Of these industrial branches, the current expenditures amounted for approximately 49, 66 and 90 percent of total environmental protection expenditures.
* Rest of industries: NACE 13-15 (textile and leather), NACE C18 (Printing, reproduction of recorded media), NACE C31 (furniture), NACE C32 (Other manufacturing) and NACE E36 (water supply).
Definitions and explanations
Environmental protection refers to activities that aim to prevent, reduce or eliminate pollution or other deterioration of the environment. Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, has produced common international definitions for environmental protection and how expenditures are to be calculated.
Investments in environmental protection are broken down into investments for emissions treatment that do not affect the process (such as filters and separate purification plants), and investments for the prevention of emissions involving investments in new or changed production processes. Current expenditure on environmental protection includes labour costs, expenditure for energy, materials, and supplies, such as for the operation and supervision of purification plants, for environmental administration tasks, environmental management and certification, as well as payments for collection and treatment of waste and wastewater. Costs for purchasing services carried out by others are also included.
Publication
Tables are available at http://www.scb.se/mi1302
Next publishing will be
Environmental protection expenditure 2024 will be published in October 2025.
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