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Environmental transfers from SEEA 2010

Environmental transfers from SEEA 2010. Viveka Palm Unit for environmental accounts and natural resources, Statistics Sweden viveka.palm@scb.se. The environmental accounts. Environm. statistics. Environmental Accounts. National Accounts. Taxes and subsidies in the environmental accounts.

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Environmental transfers from SEEA 2010

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  1. Environmental transfers from SEEA 2010 Viveka Palm Unit for environmental accounts and natural resources, Statistics Sweden viveka.palm@scb.se

  2. The environmental accounts Environm. statistics Environmental Accounts National Accounts

  3. Taxes and subsidies in the environmental accounts • Subsidies: • 1) Product- and other production subsidies • 2) Other transfers (e.g. investment grants, social transfers in kind) Taxes: 1) Product- and other production taxes 2) Other levies (e.g. charges) 3) Tax subsidies (E.g. VAT, tax exemptions)

  4. Earlier Swedish reports Environmental taxes and environmentally harmful subsidies (2000) Environmental subsidies – a review of subsidies in Sweden between 1993 and 2000 (2003) Environmental economic indicators in the Swedish state budget 1995-2006 (2008) To be downloaded at www.scb.se/mi1301 Also: Palm V, Larsson M, 2006. Economic instruments in the environmental accounts. Journal of Ecological Economics.

  5. Definitions – SEEA subsidies Summarising items using the national accounts: ● Subsidies (D.3) – on production ● Investment grants (D.92) – on fixed capital ● Social transfers in kind (D.63) –To the households ● Public R&D

  6. SEEA subsidies • Environmentally motivated • Potentially damaging • Other

  7. Environmentally motivated (EM) subsidies method • The budget lines are searched for the main motive of the transfer. Typical areas include biodiversity, monitoring of environment, R&D for cleaner energy technology or for energy efficiency. • The funding for buses and trains is allocated to ‘other subsidies’ as it is mainly funded for other motives than environment.

  8. Environmentally motivated subsidies Source: Environmental accounts, SCB

  9. Potentially environmentally damaging subsidies method(s) • The environmental accounts are used to calculate the emission intensities, CO2/GDP, for the different sectors to which transfers are allocated. • For the sectors where the intensity is above the mean emission intensity of the region studied, the transfers are labeled potentially environmentally damaging. • Thoughts for the task force: 1) Can we find an EU mean emission intensity to make this approach internationally comparable?2) Complementing this method, the transfers to the fuels mentioned in the list that constitutes environmental tax bases: coal, are there others?

  10. Environmentally related transfers, blue PED, grey EM, 1995-2006

  11. Intensive industries CO2/value added Figure 1. Emission intensive industries above the Swedish mean. MIR2008:1 Source: Environmental accounts, SCB

  12. Environmental tax bases • Emissions to air and water • Pesticides, fertilizers • Waste • Energy products (fuels, electricity, heat) • Transport • Resources

  13. Other subsidies on budget • The main part of the budget lines will not be labeled as EMs or PEDs. Instead, they are noted as Other subsidies, but can of course be presented in a disaggregated form. • This is an area where some difficult budget lines are to be seen. E.g. regional support, general agricultural support, traffic security, road maintenance.

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