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Environment and natureEnvironmental protection expenditure grew by 11 per cent in 2021
release | Environmental protection expenditure accounts 2021Change
In the database table 118q Environmental protection expenditure accounts, transfers paid have been removed. These data will be available in the statistics on environmental subsidies.
Read more about the changeAccording to Statistics Finland, environmental protection expenditure continued growing in 2021 and totalled over EUR five billion for the first time. The consumption of environmental protection services grew by six per cent and investments by as much as 45 per cent from the year before. The increase was highest in waste management.
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- The highest increase was directed at waste management, where investments grew by
EUR 183 million and consumption increased by EUR 87 million. - The relative growth was highest in mining and quarrying, where the consumption of environmental protection services grew by 39 per cent and investments by 91 per cent.
- The share of enterprises in the total expenditure on environmental protection grew in 2021.
- Environmental protection expenditure covers consumption and investments.
- The statistics cover the public sector, households, mining and quarrying, manufacturing as well as energy supply, and water and waste management.
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- Environmental protection activities
- The Classification of Sectors
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- The classification of environmental protection activities
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- Standard Industrial Classification TOL 2008
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