The Environmental Protection Expenditure Account (EPEA) is a monetary description of environmental protection activities in accordance with the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) central framework. It is coherent with the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) which applies to national accounts and related satellite accounts.
| Dataset type: | Time-Series |
| Dataset level: | Country |
(Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2020)
National environmental protection activities in terms of millions in national currency expenditure. This includes all activities with the main purpose of preventing, reducing, or eliminating pollution as well as any other form of environmental degradation. The EPEA aim to describe all national transactions related to environmental protection, with the purpose of constructing a measure of the national environmental protection expenditure which can be related to, for instance, gross domestic product, in order to assess the importance of these activities as a share of total production. The EPEA show which economic sectors contribute to environmental protection expenditure, both from the producers' side, as from the users' and the financing side. This data focuses on the production and uses of environmental protection services. Output of these services can be output of market, non-market, and ancillary activities. EPEA is directly linked to the three definitions of GDP: the production measure, the expenditure measure, and the income measure. EPEA covers (1) expenditure on environmental protection (EP) products by resident units; (2) expenditure related to the production of EP products, including the gross capital formation, and (3) transactions related to the financing of EP expenditure.
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