Environmental Accounts

The wheel contains all the domains of well-being and the measures contained within each one. In all cases the latest datapoint is shown and where applicable the previous corresponding one. The wheel also contains the units of measurement as these vary depending on the indicator used.

The UK Environmental Accounts are satellite accounts to the main UK National Accounts and facilitate environmental-economic analyses, providing statistics on the environmental impact of UK economic activity. They include natural asset accounts (e.g. oil and gas reserves, forestry, land), physical flow accounts (e.g.greenhouse gas emissions, air pollutants, energy consumption, consumption of raw materials) and monetary accounts (e.g. environmental taxes, environmental protection expenditure).

This article presents experimental estimates of environmental protection expenditure by the UK public sector in the years 1996 to 2009. The article firstly discusses the concept of environmental protection expenditure and its relevance. Next, the history of environmental protection expenditure accounts in the UK Environmental Accounts, for both the public and private sector, is discussed. This includes reference to the requirements to improve the accounts set out by the UK Statistics Authority in their assessment of the UK Environmental Accounts against the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The remainder of the article outlines work to date to deliver on these requirements, including early estimates for public sector expenditure, together with an assessment of further developments needed to deliver economy-wide environmental protection expenditure accounts in line with emerging international standards.

This article summarises the user engagement plans for the UK Environmental Accounts, UK Household Satellite Accounts and UK Human Capital Accounts, as well as other outputs of the National Accounts Extensions project of the Measuring National Well-being programme. The project has a four year development programme for which engagement with users and experts, both in the UK and internationally, will be critical to delivering trusted and relevant statistics in areas such as ecosystem accounts and volunteering.

PDF download: This article has been produced by statisticians at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs who are developing a measure of UK resource use based on raw material consumption.

2011

This paper sets out the methodology and sources of data used to estimate the monetary value of oil and gas reserves existing within the UK Continental Shelf. These are experimental statistics.

No. 12, December 2010

2010

February 2010 Update

Greenhouse gas emissions intensity falls in 2007

Provides data on the environmental impact of UK economic activity and the use of the environment by the economy.

No. 11, November 2007

Provides data on the environmental impact of UK economic activity and the use of the environment by the economy.

Provides data on the environmental impact of UK economic activity and the use of the environment by the economy.

Provides data on the environmental impact of UK economic activity and the use of the environment by the economy.

Provides data on the environmental impact of UK economic activity and the use of the environment by the economy.

Provides data on the environmental impact of UK economic activity and the use of the environment by the economy.

No. 609, August 2004

Provides data on the environmental impact of UK economic activity and the use of the environment by the economy.

Provides data on the environmental impact of UK economic activity and the use of the environment by the economy.

The Physical and Economic Accounts for UK Fisheries

Provides data on the environmental impact of UK economic activity and the use of the environment by the economy.

Methodological article

No. 572, July 2001