Environmental protection expenditure 2017
Environmental protection expenditure continued to increase in 2017
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2018-10-11 9.30
Swedish industry’s total environmental protection expenditure amounted to SEK 15.4 billion in 2017, up by 11 percent from 2016, mainly due to an increase in current expenditure. The highest total expenditure on environmental protection was in the electricity, gas and heating plant industry.
Environmental protection refers to activities that aim to prevent, reduce or eliminate pollution, or other deterioration of the environment. Environmental protection expenditure is divided into industry classification, type of expenditure (investment and current expenditure) and environmental domain.
The highest total expenditure for environmental protection in 2017, SEK 3.8 billion, was in the electricity, gas and heating plant industry. This industry contributed 25 percent of total environmental protection expenses. Since 2016, this industry increased its environmental protection expenditure by SEK 1.1 billion.
Environmental protection investments contributed 35 percent of total environmental protection expenditure, while current expenditure (such as maintenance, management and fees) contributed 65 percent. Current expenditure amounted to SEK 10.1 billion in 2017, while investment amounted to SEK 5.4 billion. Since 2016, it is primarily current expenditure that has increased. Environmental protection investments increased by 3 percent, while current expenditure increased by 16 percent compared with 2016.
Investments in ambient air and climate protection highest
In 2017, Swedish industry (mining, quarrying, manufacturing and electricity, gas and water supply) primarily invested in environmental protection focused on the protection of ambient air and the climate. Investments in this domain accounted for 41 percent of total investments in environmental protection in 2017. These investments include installation of filters and measures to replace fossil fuel sources with fuel sources that have a reduced climate impact.
Investments to reduce the environmental impact in the water domain accounted for about 31 percent of total environmental protection investments, while investments to reduce and manage waste accounted for 9 percent. Since 2016, investments in the biodiversity, land and other environmental protection domains decreased slightly and accounted for 18 percent of total environmental protection investments in 2017.
SEK millions
*The domains biodiversity, land and other used to be included in the domain other. In this year’s publication the domain has been divided into three.
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 the expenditure is 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 consists of expenditure for staff, 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 waste management. Payments to others who carry out these measures are also included.
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