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Environment Accounts give information on the demands UK economic activity makes on the environment – particularly in the form of energy consumption and pollution, such as emissions of greenhouse gases or acid rain.
The accounts also detail the amount of income generated by environmental taxes, such as landfill taxes or duties on hydrocarbon fuels like petrol or diesel. And, in addition, detail the UK’s estimated reserves of natural resources, like oil and gas.
Environmental accounts are ’satellite accounts‘ to the main National Accounts. Satellite accounts are extensions to the National Accounts, which allow for analysis of the wider impact of economic change. The accounts use similar concepts and classifications of industries to those employed in the National Accounts, and reflect the recommended European Union and United Nations frameworks for developing such accounts.
The information has been separated into three dimensions: Natural resource accounts, Physical flows and Monetary accounts
UK Environmental Accounts are used to inform sustainable development policy, to model impacts of fiscal or monetary measures and to evaluate the environmental impacts of different sectors of the economy.
Most data are provided in units of physical measurement (mass or volume), although some are in monetary units, where this is the most relevant or the only data available.
List of annual publications
Large fall in emissions since 1990
Improvements in all sectors since 1990
Energy intensity falls
Spending rises
Taxes up 1.4% in 2008
Resource use – a small rise
UK oil reserves estimated at 2.8bn tonnes
Reserves total £246bn
Consumption rises in 2007
2007 statistics
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