Environment costs and -expenditure; enterprises > 10 employees; key figures

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This table shows key figures on the environmental investments and the financial burden on enterprises (with 10 or more employees) in the economic sectors mining and quarrying, industry and energy and water production. The term 'environment' is defined as everything outside the company's premises, including soil in that area.

Data available from: 2012

Status of the figures:
Data for 2012-2021 are definite, the 2022 data are provisional.
Following publication of definite results, the figures are only reviewed if significant adjustments are necessary.

Changes as of 30 November 2023:
Definite data are available for 2021, and provisional data for 2022 has been added.

When will new figures be published?
In the third quarter of 2024 the definite results for 2022 and the provisional results for 2023 will be available.

Description topics

Environmental investments by domain
Environmental investments divided by environmental domain.
Air and energy
Environmental activities to prevent or diminish air pollution and environmental activities that reduce energy consumption and the generation of renewable energy.
Examples:
- plants or facilities to purify, prevent or diminish exhaust gasses;
- facilities that take care of a better emission of air polluting substances in the atmosphere (e.g. higher industrial chimneys);
- flare systems;
- equipment for emission-, stench- and concentration measurements;
- insulation of buildings and equipment;
- facilities for recovering heat;
- heat and power stations, cogeneration, fuel cells, heat pumps;
- solar panels and solar collectors;
- windmills;
- utilise thermal storage or outdoor temperature;
- facilities for energy generation out of biomass or to produce hydroelectric power.
Total Air and energy
Total environmental investments in the environmental domain of Air and energy.
Energy saving
Environmental activities that reduce energy consumption.
Examples:
- insulation of buildings and equipment;
- facilities for recovering heat;
- heat and power stations, cogeneration, fuel cells, heat pumps.
Renewable energy
Environmental activities for the generation of renewable energy.
Examples:
- solar panels and solar collectors;
- windmills;
- utilise thermal storage or outdoor temperature;
- facilities for energy generation out of biomass or to produce hydroelectric power.
Air
Environmental activities to prevent or diminish air pollution.
Examples:
- plants or facilities to purify, prevent or diminish exhaust gasses;
- facilities that take care of a better emission of air polluting substances in the atmosphere (e.g. higher industrial chimneys);
- flare systems;
- equipment for emission-, stench- and concentration measurements.