NAME OF COLLECTION
Environment Protection Expenditure
Contact
Assistant Director
Environment and Energy Statistics Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Locked Bag 10
BELCONNEN ACT 2616
Telephone: Canberra 02 6252 7533
Facsimile: Canberra 02 6252 5335
Email: client.services@abs.gov.au
Web site: <www.abs.gov.au>
Purpose
To provide data on environmental protection expenditure for use by decision-makers in assessing, developing and integrating economic and environmental policies. The information collected in this series is also used to satisfy international reporting obligations, such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Environmental questionnaire and the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development indicator project.
The data also form part of environment 'satellite' accounts designed to augment the core System of National Accounts. These environment protection expenditure initiatives are in keeping with Australia's commitment to ecologically sustainable development, as outlined in the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment and other international agreements.
Description
Data are collected using economic collections covering agriculture, mining, manufacturing and service industries. See the entry on Mining Collection for more details. Information is also collected from a number of other sources including annual reports, government budget papers and local government.
In relation to the mining industry, the series provides an indication of:
- the expenditure on environment protection services;
- the financing of environment protection activities; and
- the impact of environmental measures such as taxes and regulations.
This information may assist sectors of the mining industry which have developed expertise in environmental management to better understand the scope, nature and potential of commercial operations in the Australian market.
Main data detail
Data items available about selected mining industries classified by the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) Groups and Classes are:
- consumption of environment protection goods and services;
- gross capital formation for environment protection services; and
- provision of labour, goods and services as inputs into production of environment protection measures.
Data are distributed by environmental domain, these domains being:
- solid waste management;
- waste water and water protection;
- protection of ambient air and climate;
- protection of biodiversity and landscape;
- protection of soil and groundwater; and
- other environment protection (including noise and vibration abatement and research and development).
Additional data items available about selected ANZSIC Mining Groups are:
- pollution abatement and control expenditures;
- capital expenditure on environment protection;
- current expenditure on environment protection;
- components of current expenditure on environment protection;
- capital expenditure on environment protection by technique;
- capital expenditure on environment protection by environment domain;
- total expenditure on environment protection;
- eco-efficiency measures; and
- environment plans and related qualitative information.
Geographic coverage
Australia.
Frequency of data availability
Two-yearly.
Reference period
Year ended 30 June.
Historical data
Data are available from 1990-91 to 1996-97 and from 2000-01.
Products and services
Publication
Other
- Special data services are available on request.
Example of information available
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION EXPENDITURE, MINING INDUSTRY, AUSTRALIA - 2000-01
 | Capital
$m | Current
$m | Total
$m |
|
| Coal mining | 11.6 | 82.4 | 94.1 |
| Oil and gas extraction protection | 14.5 | 23.5 | 38 |
| Metal ore mining | 71.5 | 154.4 | 225.9 |
| Other mining | 9.2 | 23.4 | 32.7 |
| Total | 106.8 | 283.8 | 390.6 |
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