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System of Environmental and Economic Accounts

Official statistics of Sweden

Upcoming publishing: 2023-05-11

The Environmental Accounts provide a systematic description of the relationship between the environment and the economy and can be used for analyses of various types. They function as a satellite system to the National Accounts, presenting environmentally related physical and economic information for industries, the public sector and households. They also provide information for analyzing environmental and economic policies and is used for developing indicators for sustainable development.

Environmentally motivated direct subsidies will be revised for the years 2015-2017 in 17 May 2023 when the reference year 2022 is released. The revisions mainly effect measures for improving the environment in the agricultural sector.

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy increased by 3 percent in 2021

2023-03-23

Greenhouse gas emissions from Sweden’s economy and households increased by 3 percent in 2021 to 50,2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents compared with 2020. However, the level of greenhouse gas emissions is still lower than the pre-pandemic level. Over the same period GDP increased by 5,3 percent. Therefore, the emission intensity is decreased by 3 percent during the year 2021.

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Publications

Title Language Type Date
Investigating new data sources for land and ecosystem accounts English Report 2021-03-25
Monitoring greenhouse gas transfers English Report 2020-10-06
The economic structures and environmental pressure in the Swedish river basin districts Swedish Report 2019-12-16
Bioeconomy - development of new regional statistics Swedish Report 2018-12-18
The bioeconomy - Developing new regional statistics English Report 2018-12-18
The tourism satellite account and the environment – method development Swedish Report 2018-10-24
The tourism satellite account and the environment – method development English Report 2018-10-24
Regional environmental economic accounts 2008–2015 Swedish with elements of English Report 2017-11-22
Land accounts for ecosystem services Swedish Report 2017-04-27
Land accounts for ecosystem services English Report 2017-04-25
Monitoring the shift to sustainable consumption patterns and production – in the context of the SDGs English Report 2016-11-16
New method for up-to-date environmental accounts – quarterly emissions to air English Report 2016-11-15
New method for up-to-date environmental accounts – quarterly emissions to air Swedish Report 2016-11-15
Creating statistics about environmental technology (clean tech) English Report 2016-03-30
Creating statistics about environmental technology (clean tech) Swedish with elements of English Report 2015-07-01
Environmental Accounts – a jubilee English Report 2015-05-06
Environmental Accounts – a jubilee Swedish with elements of English Report 2015-02-02

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