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Background notes

Environmental Accounts provide information on the environmental impact of UK economic activity (in particular on the emissions of pollutants) and on the importance of natural resources to the economy.

The documents listed here are background notes to the production of the data.

For further information email environment.accounts@ons.gsi.gov.uk

Natural resources

• Land cover account: Great Britain 1990 to 1998 (13Kb, pdf)
• Monetary valuation of oil and gas reserves (34Kb, pdf)
• Physical account for oil and gas reserves (34Kb, pdf)
• Physical and Economic Accounts for UK Fisheries (149Kb, pdf)

Physical flows

• Energy consumption (39Kb, pdf)
• Overview of atmospheric emissions (100Kb, pdf)
• Adjustments to the UK's atmospheric emissions and energy accounts to bring them onto a National Accounts 'residents' basis (221Kb, pdf)
• Methodologies for estimating the levels of atmospheric emissions arising from the production of goods imported to the UK (16Kb, pdf)
• Impact of households on the environment through direct and indirect generation of greenhouse gases (251Kb, pdf)
• Material flows (30Kb, pdf)
• Consumption of water resources (7Kb, pdf)
• Radioactive waste (20Kb, pdf)

Monetary accounts

• Government revenues from environmental taxes (31Kb, pdf)
• Environmental protection expenditure (31Kb, pdf)
• Environmental protection expenditure by UK general government sector 1996/97 to 2000/01 (343Kb, pdf)
• Industrial analysis of environmental taxes (1.6Mb, pdf)

Glossaries and descriptions

• Fuel type descriptions (7Kb, pdf)
• Glossary of economic terms (8Kb, pdf)
• Glossary of atmospheric pollutants (52Kb, pdf)
• Industrial classifications by type (51Kb, pdf)