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Focus on Environmental Accounts

Focus on Environmental 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. Environmental Accounts are an extension of the National Accounts which are used to help analyse the wider impact of economic change.

Greenhouse gas emissions have declined by 8.7 per cent, on a National Accounts basis, since 1990. The main contributors of Greenhouse gas emissions are; the Electricity, Gas and water supply industry (25.4 per cent), Households (22.2 per cent) and Manufacturing (18.2 per cent). Energy consumption was 245.7 million tonnes of oil equivalent in 2004. This is 1.0 per cent higher than in 2003 and 11.4 per cent higher than in 1990. Environmental tax receipts in 2005 were £35.0 billion, 66.7 per cent of which came from taxes on hydrocarbon oils such as petrol and diesel.

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arrow Acid rain
UK emissions halve since 1990
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UK emissions increase in 2004
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arrow Greenhouse gas emissions intensity
Falls in most sectors
- arrow Industry consumption of energy & output
Energy use increases
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arrow Environmental protection
Spending rises
- arrow Natural resource & products use
Resource use down 2.8% in 2005
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arrow Environmental taxes
Environmental Taxes 2.9% of GDP in 2005
- arrow North Sea Fish Stocks
Cod remains at low levels for 2005
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arrow Oil & gas reserves
UK oil reserves estimated at 2.9bn tonnes
- arrow Value of oil & gas
Reserves total £155 billion
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arrow Wood products
Consumption falls in 2005
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Further Analysis
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arrow Monitoring the Environment arrow Download data and reports
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About this series
Each overview in the Focus on series combines data from various sources to illustrate its topic, and provide links to further information.

 Updated 23 May 2006



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