1. Physical Environmental Accounts - Common elements and compilation challenges European Statistical Training Programme (ESTP)
Sacha Baud,
Jasmin Gülden Sterzl, – Statistics Austria
Vienna, 28 – 30 Mai 2018
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2. Greenhouse gas emission statistics - carbon footprints
Material flow accounts statistics - material footprints
Carbon footprints are one particular analytical application of air emissions accounts (AEA). They can be compiled e.g. by using a modelling approach, based on economic information and air emissions accounts.
Using this approach Eurostat estimates the EU-28’s carbon footprint at 7.1 tonnes per person in 2016.
Material footprints quantify the worldwide demand for material extractions (biomass, metal ores, non-metallic minerals and fossil energy materials/carriers) triggered by consumption and investment by households, governments and businesses in the EU. Material footprints are compiled with a model, using data from national accounts and material flow accounts.
The mainly used indicator for resource use is the domestic material consumption (DMC). But this indicator do not provide an entirely accurate picture of global material footprints because EW-MFA record imports and exports in the actual weight of the traded goods when they cross country borders instead of the weight of materials extracted to produce them. As the former are lower than the latter, EW-MFA and the derived DMC underestimate the material footprint. To adjust for this, the weight of processed goods traded internationally is converted into the corresponding raw material extractions they induce.
So import and export flows can be expressed in their raw material equivalents (RME). According to these estimates, EU imports in 2015 were 2.4 times higher when expressed in RME than imports recorded in EW-MFA. Exports were 4.1 times higher. The derived global material footprint, also referred to as raw material consumption (RMC), was 13.9 tonnes per capita in the EU in 2015 and 5.6 % higher than DMC.

3. Accounting of international flows
Residence principle vs. territory principle in AEA and PEFA
International bunkers and air transport as specific issues from national emission inventories
Imports/exports of materials in MFA
For these issues reference is made to the relevant environmental account.
Carbon footprints are one particular analytical application of air emissions accounts (AEA). They can be compiled e.g. by using a modelling approach, based on economic information and air emissions accounts.
Using this approach Eurostat estimates the EU-28’s carbon footprint at 7.1 tonnes per person in 2016.
Material footprints quantify the worldwide demand for material extractions (biomass, metal ores, non-metallic minerals and fossil energy materials/carriers) triggered by consumption and investment by households, governments and businesses in the EU. Material footprints are compiled with a model, using data from national accounts and material flow accounts.
The mainly used indicator for resource use is the domestic material consumption (DMC). But this indicator do not provide an entirely accurate picture of global material footprints because EW-MFA record imports and exports in the actual weight of the traded goods when they cross country borders instead of the weight of materials extracted to produce them. As the former are lower than the latter, EW-MFA and the derived DMC underestimate the material footprint. To adjust for this, the weight of processed goods traded internationally is converted into the corresponding raw material extractions they induce.
So import and export flows can be expressed in their raw material equivalents (RME). According to these estimates, EU imports in 2015 were 2.4 times higher when expressed in RME than imports recorded in EW-MFA. Exports were 4.1 times higher. The derived global material footprint, also referred to as raw material consumption (RMC), was 13.9 tonnes per capita in the EU in 2015 and 5.6 % higher than DMC.

4. Allocation of Emissions and Energy to NACE/HH
Austrian Example:
Energy:
Surveys, that provide information on final energy consumption on NACE 2 digit level and households
Emissions: three way of allocation to NACE/HH
Direct allocation of model-based emissions
Based on use energy analysis
In transport: based on PEFA
Carbon footprints are one particular analytical application of air emissions accounts (AEA). They can be compiled e.g. by using a modelling approach, based on economic information and air emissions accounts.
Using this approach Eurostat estimates the EU-28’s carbon footprint at 7.1 tonnes per person in 2016.
Material footprints quantify the worldwide demand for material extractions (biomass, metal ores, non-metallic minerals and fossil energy materials/carriers) triggered by consumption and investment by households, governments and businesses in the EU. Material footprints are compiled with a model, using data from national accounts and material flow accounts.
The mainly used indicator for resource use is the domestic material consumption (DMC). But this indicator do not provide an entirely accurate picture of global material footprints because EW-MFA record imports and exports in the actual weight of the traded goods when they cross country borders instead of the weight of materials extracted to produce them. As the former are lower than the latter, EW-MFA and the derived DMC underestimate the material footprint. To adjust for this, the weight of processed goods traded internationally is converted into the corresponding raw material extractions they induce.
So import and export flows can be expressed in their raw material equivalents (RME). According to these estimates, EU imports in 2015 were 2.4 times higher when expressed in RME than imports recorded in EW-MFA. Exports were 4.1 times higher. The derived global material footprint, also referred to as raw material consumption (RMC), was 13.9 tonnes per capita in the EU in 2015 and 5.6 % higher than DMC.

5. Allocation of Emissions and Energy to NACE/HH
Emissions are not directly related to energy consumption for all use purposes or for all NACE industries.
However: If there is a final energy consumption in a NACE industry, there has to be some sort of emission (used by Eurostat as check of the PEFA-Questionnaire)
Carbon footprints are one particular analytical application of air emissions accounts (AEA). They can be compiled e.g. by using a modelling approach, based on economic information and air emissions accounts.
Using this approach Eurostat estimates the EU-28’s carbon footprint at 7.1 tonnes per person in 2016.
Material footprints quantify the worldwide demand for material extractions (biomass, metal ores, non-metallic minerals and fossil energy materials/carriers) triggered by consumption and investment by households, governments and businesses in the EU. Material footprints are compiled with a model, using data from national accounts and material flow accounts.
The mainly used indicator for resource use is the domestic material consumption (DMC). But this indicator do not provide an entirely accurate picture of global material footprints because EW-MFA record imports and exports in the actual weight of the traded goods when they cross country borders instead of the weight of materials extracted to produce them. As the former are lower than the latter, EW-MFA and the derived DMC underestimate the material footprint. To adjust for this, the weight of processed goods traded internationally is converted into the corresponding raw material extractions they induce.
So import and export flows can be expressed in their raw material equivalents (RME). According to these estimates, EU imports in 2015 were 2.4 times higher when expressed in RME than imports recorded in EW-MFA. Exports were 4.1 times higher. The derived global material footprint, also referred to as raw material consumption (RMC), was 13.9 tonnes per capita in the EU in 2015 and 5.6 % higher than DMC.

6. Questions?