EXPENDITURE ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

    Panel 1
    Data aggiornamento scheda
    Autori

    Renato Marra Campanale

    Abstract
    Immagine
    Abstract

    In 2021, the level of expenditure in the Italian economy for environmental protection amounted to 46.6 billion euros, equivalent to 2.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This ratio is the highest recorded since 2016, although it remained substantially stable between 2016 and 2021. Expenditure on environmental protection mainly concerns waste management and wastewater management. Other environmental protection purposes include, in order of importance, soil protection and remediation, groundwater and surface water protection; biodiversity and landscape protection; protection from radiation, research and development, other activities; air and climate protection; noise and vibration reduction (excluding workplace environmental protection).

    Descrizione

    The indicator quantifies, for an economy as a whole and/or for the various operators within it, the amount of national resources (net of funding received from the rest of the world) spent on environmental protection by resident operators, regardless of the origin of these resources; each resident operator can spend drawing from their own resources and/or from resources received from other resident operators (resources, for example, through transfers). National expenditure on environmental protection is determined before depreciation. National expenditure on environmental protection is the main indicator derived from the environmental protection expenditure account. It is defined as the sum of: final consumption of environmental protection services by resident units; intermediate consumption of environmental protection services by resident units excluding specialized producers; gross fixed investments and acquisitions minus disposals of non-produced non-financial assets for the implementation of environmental protection activities; environmental protection transfers that are not the counterpart of the previous aggregates, minus funding from the rest of the world.

    Scopo

    The purpose is to identify and measure the responses of the economy to environmental problems through the supply and demand for environmental protection services. Indicators of the environmental protection expenditure account, eco-industries, and environmental tax revenue make explicit the environmentally relevant economic transactions not highlighted in the core national accounts.

    Rilevanza
    È di portata nazionale oppure applicabile a temi ambientali a livello regionale ma di significato nazionale
    È in grado di descrivere la tendenza senza necessariamente fornire una valutazione della stessa.
    È sensibile ai cambiamenti che si verificano nell'ambiente e/o nelle attività umane
    Fornisce un quadro rappresentativo delle condizioni ambientali, delle pressioni sull'ambiente e delle risposte della società.
    Fornisce una base per confronti internazionali.
    Solidità
    È basato su standard nazionali/internazionali e sul consenso nazionale/internazionale circa la sua validità
    È ben fondato sul piano tecnico e scientifico.
    Presenta affidabilità e attendibilità dei metodi di misurazione e raccolta dei dati
    Comparabilità nel tempo
    Comparabilità nello spazio
    Misurabilità (dati)
    Adeguatamente documentati e di fonte nota
    Aggiornati a intervalli regolari e con procedure affidabili
    Facilmente disponibili o resi disponibili a fronte di un ragionevole rapporto costi/benefici
    Un’ “adeguata” copertura spaziale
    Un’ “idonea” copertura temporale
    Principali riferimenti normativi e obiettivi

    Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No. 125/2022, which amended the previous Regulation EU 691/2011 on environmental-economic accounts.

    DPSIR
    Risposta
    Tipologia indicatore
    Benessere (E)
    Riferimenti bibliografici

    Environmental protection expenditure accounts Handbook — 2017 edition. Eurostat, Luxembourg (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-GQ-17-004) - System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 - Central Framework. United Nations, New York, 2014 (https://seea.un.org/content/seea-central-framework)

    Frequenza di rilevazione dei dati
    Annuale
    Accessibilità dei dati di base

    Istat database - http://dati.istat.it/# --> Conti nazionali --> Conti ambientali --> Spese per la protezione dell'ambiente

    Copertura spaziale

    National

    Copertura temporale

    2016-2021

    Descrizione della metodologia di elaborazione

    The methodology for processing the indicator can be found in the document Environmental protection expenditure accounts Handbook — 2017 edition. Eurostat, Luxembourg (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-GQ-17-004). The environmental protection expenditure account, in line with national economic accounting, presents data on the economic resources allocated to environmental protection by resident units. The following variables are considered: -Production of environmental protection services (distinguished between market production, non-market production, and auxiliary activities); - Intermediate consumption of environmental protection services; -Intermediate consumption of environmental protection services for the production of environmental protection services; -Imports and exports of environmental protection services; -Value-added tax (VAT) and other taxes, net of subsidies, on environmental protection services; -Gross fixed capital formation and acquisitions minus disposals of non-financial non-produced assets for the production of environmental protection services; -Final consumption of environmental protection services; -Transfers destined for environmental protection (received/paid), disaggregated by type of producer/consumer of environmental protection services: Public administrations (including non-profit institutions serving households) and businesses as institutional sectors producing environmental protection services; -Households, public administrations, and businesses as consumers of environmental protection services; -The rest of the world as a beneficiary or source of environmental protection transfers; and by classes or groupings of classes of environmental protection activities (CEPA).
    The CEPA classification includes: 1. Air and climate protection; 2. Wastewater management; 3. Waste management; 4. Soil and groundwater protection; 5. Noise and vibration reduction; 6. Biodiversity and landscape protection; 7. Protection from radiation; 8. Research and development for environmental protection; 9. Other environmental protection activities.

    Periodicità di aggiornamento
    Annuale
    Data quality

    The indicator complies with the characteristics of transparency, accuracy, consistency, and completeness as it is calculated according to the reference methodology.

    Stato
    Medio
    Trend
    Stabile
    Valutazione/descrizione dello stato

    In 2021, the level of expenditure in the Italian economy for environmental protection amounted to 46.6 billion euros, equivalent to 2.6% of GDP (Table 1), which is broadly in line with the European average (2.2%).

    Valutazione/descrizione del trend

    Between 2016 and 2021, expenditure on environmental protection in the Italian economy increased by only 0.3 percentage points in relation to GDP, showing an almost stable trend over the period (Table 1).

    Commenti

    In 2021, expenditure on environmental protection mainly concerned waste management and wastewater management, which represented 51% and 22% of total environmental protection expenditure, respectively (Figure 1 and Table 1). Other environmental protection purposes include, in order of importance, soil protection and remediation, groundwater and surface water protection; biodiversity and landscape protection; protection from radiation, research and development, other activities; air and climate protection; noise and vibration reduction, excluding workplace environmental protection (Table 1 and Figure 1).
    "Companies" accounted for over half (52%) of total expenditure in 2021, while "Public administrations and private social institutions serving households" and "Households" covered 27% and 21%, respectively. These shares have remained quite stable from 2016 to 2021 (Table 1).

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    Figure 1: Breakdown of national expenditure for environmental protection by activity sector (CEPA).

    Fonte

    Istat

    Titolo

    Table 1: National expenditure for environmental protection by institutional sector and CEPA, and ratio to GDP.

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    Istat

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