1. Europe 2020, Resource Efficiency, Environmental Indicators + Accounts
EEA/DIMESA Seminar
Copenhagen, June 2011
Walter Radermacher, Chief Statistician of the EU

2. Key messages
Europe 2020: Eurostat/ESS = empirical arm of political monitoring
Resource Efficiency: linked to Sustainable Development and Green Growth
A large amount of basic information available
Economic Environmental Accounts: interface between primary statistics and indicators
Eurostat Conference 2011: on Statistics for Policy Making
Quality in Official Statistics: 3 profiles (official, certified, experimental)
Valuation: possibilities and constraints in Official Statistics
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3. Europe 2020 on the Eurostat Website
Headline indicators directly accessible
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4. Europe 2020 on the Eurostat Website
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5. The consumption of resources in the Eurostat monitoring report of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy
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6. Resource efficiency indicators from official statistics
STATISTICS - ACCOUNTS
Land Use/Land Cover
Energy Statistics
Waste Statistics and other waste legislation (Waste Data centre)
Chemicals
Water
Forestry
Environmental Accounts
EE SUIOT
Some INDICATORS
LU indicators
Protected areas
Energy efficiency
CO2 early estimates
Renewable energy
Waste generation (activity/waste category)
Waste Treatment (Recycling, incineration…)
Municipal Waste generation and treatment
Hazardous waste …
Production harmful / toxic chemicals
Exploitation of water resources
Wastewater treatment
Forest surface
Resource productivity
DMC/RMC
Environmental taxes / protection expenditure indicators
Carbon footprint
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7. Domestic Material Consumption (DMC)
domestic extraction used
+ imports in mass weight (kg) of traded product
– exports in mass weight (kg) of traded product
= Domestic Material Consumption (DMC)
Focusing on material extractions on the domestic territory
Does not count hidden flows of raw materials extracted abroad and used to manufacture abroad products imported in the EU.
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8. DMC and GDP growth rates in EU and countries between 2000 and 2007 and decoupling issues
In Romania DMC increased more than GDP (10% per year for DMC and 6% for GDP)
In Latvia DMC increased less than GDP (5% per year for DMC and 9% for GDP)
In Luxembourg DMC decreased of 2% per year
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9. Raw Material Consumption (RMC)
Domestic extraction used
+ Imports in raw material equivalents
– Exports in raw material equivalents
= Raw Material Consumption (RMC)
(Where raw material equivalents = material extraction needed to produce traded good)
=> taking a global perspective !
ESS already agreed to produce RMC
First estimates for the EU already available
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10. Cooperation with OECD
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11. Economic Environmental Accounts
First Regulation almost adopted (July 2011):
Air Emissions, Material Flow Accounts, Environmental Taxes
Amendments of EP:
Progress rapidly in next modules (Report every three years on extensions)
Include Stock Accounts, Unused extraction, Ecosystems
Improve timeliness (Early estimates)
New wave supported by DIMESA (Energy, EGSS, EPE)
To be submitted for legislation Beginning 2013
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12. Eurostat Conference, March 2011
High political interest
Good Statistics are much cheaper than Wrong Policy Decisions
Session Green Growth Indicators:
Need of good data on: Resource Efficiency, Eco-Innovation, Ecosystem Services, EGSS, Green Procurement
Importance of communicating to citizens
Confusing variety of approaches (Green Growth, sustainable development, resource efficiency, greening economy…) requires efforts for consistency
Need of data for all levels of administration (National, Regional, Local)
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13. Quality in statistics: fundamental aspects
Consistency with theory
Which theory???
Quality = Fitness for Purpose
Political relevance
Measurability
Who decides???
Reliability, timeliness, …???
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14. Primary information from surveys, registers etc.
Quality in statistics: aggregation aspects
Indicator(sets)
Accounting systems
Primary information from surveys, registers etc.
Not labelled as „Official Statistics“
Composite indicators
Specific
Purpose
Multi-
Purpose
Quality
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15. Walter Radermacher

16. walter.radermacher@ec.europa.eu http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/