The circular material use rate measures the share of material resources reused by an economy. In the period 2004–2023, Italy's circular material use rate increased from 5.8% to 20.8%.

In 2024 Italy confirms itself among the EU leader countries in terms of eco-innovation, with performances above the European average in resource efficiency, energy productivity, and emissions. Between 2014 and 2024, the Italian index grew by +39.2 percentage points (pp), exceeding the EU average increase (+27.5 pp), with a particularly marked improvement in resource efficiency (+64.4 pp compared to +62 pp EU).

Le informazioni statistiche relative alle imposte ambientali possono essere articolate secondo la categoria di imposta, le unità che le corrispondono, la classe di attività ambientale e la destinazione del gettito. In Italia, le imposte ambientali ammontano nel 2024 a 60,8 miliardi di euro (+11,6% rispetto all'anno precedente). Nel 2024, il gettito delle imposte ambientali corrisponde a circa il 6,1% del gettito totale delle imposte e contributi sociali (2023) e a circa il 3% del Prodotto interno lordo.

In 2022, the sixth edition of the Catalogue of Environmentally Relevant Subsidies identified a total of 183 measures, resulting in €24.2 billion in Environmentally Harmful Subsidies (EHS) and €20.2 billion in Environmentally Beneficial Subsidies (EBS), representing a year-on-year increase of 15.1% and a decrease of 2.5%, respectively. Subsidies amounting to €13.8 billion were classified as having uncertain environmental impact, marking a 7.5% increase compared to 2021. Among the Environmentally Harmful Subsidies, those related to fossil fuels accounted for €17 billion in 2022 (compared to €13 billion in 2020 and €14.8 billion in 2021).