Scope and applications

Air emissions accounts contain climate-relevant data, broken down by economic sector, into the physical accounts of the environmental accounts.

NAMEA provides information on emissions and energy use for considering environmentally relevant aspects of different transport systems.

As part of the energy accounts, the environmental accounts show the type and quantity of energy sources used.

Environmental accounts such as NAMEA provide basic information regarding the allocation of waste data to economic sectors and private households.

Green taxation is an instrument that can be used to influence or change our behaviour and as a guide in sustainable development.

Subsidies can steer production and consumption decisions in a desired direction, but sometimes encourage environmentally harmful behavior and negative effects on the environment.

Environmental accounts show the interactions between the environment and the economy, which environmental economics also deals with, on the basis of concrete data.

The survey on environmentally relevant production and services as part of the environmental accounts provides data on "green jobs" in Austria.

With ecosystem accounts, a better understanding is created of which goods and services ecosystems provide and which ecosystem characteristics are important for their undisturbed provision.

The purpose and aim of asset accounts for natural resources is to describe the relevant national capital stocks of non-renewable natural resources and to quantify changes observed in these capital stocks.

As part of the environmental accounts, the material flow account provides basic information for determining resource efficiency.