Environmental-economic accounting supports the federal government’s sustainability strategy by analysing and specifying detailed trends of various environmental indicators in the sustainability strategy and revealing interrelations with economic and social aspects. This relates, in particular, to the indicators on energy and raw material productivity (indicators 1a and b of the strategy), greenhouse gas emissions (indicator 2), the growth of settlement and traffic areas (indicator 4), the intensity of passenger and freight transport (indicator 11 a and b) and air pollutants (indicator 13). The results of the analyses on the above and other indicators of the sustainability strategy are contained in the Indicator Report 2008. At present, the draft of the Progress Report on the National Sustainable Development Strategy 2008 is under discussion. It contains also an updated indicator report. As part of a consultation process, the various groups of society have been invited to submit their statements on the draft (position: May 2008) by the end of June this year.
