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Environmental Economic Accounting

The environmental economic accounts (EAA) provide a comprehensive view of the interactions between the environment and the economy.

Date: July 25, 2022 57.2 billion euros of revenue from environmental taxes in 2021

Environmental tax revenue totalled 57.2 billion euros in 2021. This is a slight increase of 0.2% on the previous year. Environmental taxes accounted for 7.5% of total cash tax revenue in 2021.

Date: June 30, 2020 Environment-related tax revenue at 60.7 billion euros in 2019

The environment-related tax revenue totalled 60.7 billion euros in 2019.

Press release No. 546 of 19 December 2022 New record volume of household waste generated in 2021

The volume of waste produced by households in Germany continued to rise in 2021. 483 kilograms of household waste per capita were collected according to provisional data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was an increase by 6 …

Press release No. 542 of 16 December 2022 Household consumption of housing energy down 0.9% in 2020

Households in Germany consumed less housing energy in the first Covid-19 year of 2020 than in 2019 although people spent more time at home on account of the pandemic. The temperature adjusted consumption of housing energy amounted to a total of 715 …

Press release No. 524 of 9 December 2022 Potential greenhouse effect of fluorinated greenhouse gases used in 2021 down 9% on 2020

The potential greenhouse effect of the fluorinated greenhouse gases used in Germany in 2021 (FCs, HFCs, blends) fell by 9% on 2020. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the volume of fluorinated greenhouse gases used declined …

Press release No. 510 of 2 December 2022 Energy consumption in transport down by a fifth in 2020

Transport was responsible for a good fifth (21.4%, or 2,562 petajoules) of German energy consumption in 2020. Energy consumption in transport thus dropped by 18.4% compared with 2019, when it had accounted for nearly a fourth (24.1%) of total energy …

Press release No. 437 of 12 October 2022 CO₂ emission intensity of German businesses decreased again in 2020

The total CO₂ emission intensity of all economic sectors amounted to 205 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO₂) per 1,000 euros of gross value added in 2020, which is 8.4% less than a year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports …

Press release No. 433 of 11 October 2022 Number of accidents involving water-hazardous substances decreased once again in 2021

1,979 accidents involving water-hazardous substances were registered in Germany in 2021. The number of such accidents thus fell once again from a year earlier (-2.2%), reaching the lowest level recorded since the start of the time series. 16.1 …

Press release No. 418 of 4 October 2022 Electric mobility accounting for almost 30% of turnover in air quality control

In 2020, the establishments of the industry and service sectors in Germany generated a turnover of roughly 11.7 billion euros from goods and services for air quality control, or 14.8% of total turnover in environmental protection (78.9 billion …