Environmental protection funding

Environmental measures implemented by the state support the development of environmentally friendly consumption and production habits. One of these measures is environmental taxes. Their share in the total tax revenue in Estonia has increased over the years. The purpose of environmental taxes is to mitigate the negative impact of human activity on the environment and to reduce environmental pollution. Examples of environmental taxes are pollution, energy and transport taxes.

Statistics on environmental protection funding provide information on environmental protection expenditures, environmental subsidies, as well as on environmental taxes paid. They include information, such as

  • how much is spent on environmental protection and how large are investments;
  • how much manufacturing enterprises invest in environmental protection and who are the biggest investors;
  • how large is the environmental tax revenue from enterprises and households;
  • how much are environmental protection services consumed;
  • which environmental protection or resource management domains receive subsidies and who are the beneficiaries

Environmental protection funding data are used to plan the implementation of environmental protection measures and monitor the ecological tax reform, the purpose of which is to increase taxation on environmental burden and reduce labourlabor taxes.

Statistics Estonia conducted a study, which aimed to identify how environmental subsidies were distributed in Estonia in year 2020 – who are paying the subsidies, who are the beneficiaries and which environmental protection or resource management activities received the funding. The study can be found here

In regards to resource management and environmental goods in Estonia, a report was compiled for selected good. The report gives an overview of selected goods produced and/or consumed in Estonia, the extra cost of environmental goods and the developed methodology used. The report can be found here

Forementioned work has been co-financed by Eurostat grant  for developing environmental accounts (101022852 — 2020-EE-ENVACC).

 

Environmental taxes 723.5 million euros
10.1%
2021
Government expenditure on environmental protection 616.9 million euros
-3.1%
Consumption of environmental protection services 551.6 million euros
1.2%
Environmental investments 129.1 million euros
-7.9%
Environmental protection investments of manufacturing enterprises 37.7 million euros
34.0%
Environmental protection current expenditures of manufacturing enterprises 96.9 million euros
12.7%
Environmental tax revenue | 2014–2022
Total environmental protection expenditure | 2018–2021
National expenditure for environmental protection | 2018–2021
Environmental taxes | 2012 – 2022
Unit: thousand euros
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Energy taxes 431,910 420,935 463,783 491,299 567,409 599,595 623,734 817,049 601,638 662,623 758,024
Transport taxes 10,789 10,936 11,305 12,159 12,521 13,044 13,231 13,371 11,100 12,671 12,730
Pollution taxes 31,483 37,068 44,227 44,920 50,144 52,723 54,527 44,285 28,952 32,236 42,518
Resource taxes 14,882 15,700 13,749 14,506 15,236 15,692 17,445 14,836 15,315 16,004 16,268

Total environmental protection expenditure | 2018 – 2021
Unit: million euros
2018 2019 2020 2021
National expenditure for environmental protection 634.2 623.6 636.7 616.9
Consumption of environmental protection services by residents (at purchasers' prices) 481.2 544.0 545.0 551.6
Gross fixed capital formation in environmental protection activities 182.8 110.9 140.1 129.1
Transfers -29.8 -31.2 -48.4 -63.9

Environmental protection expenditures and receipts of enterprises not specialised in environmental protection | 2014 – 2022
Unit: thousand euros
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Investments .. 127,307 27,711 13,231 62,457 25,444 23,764 28,095 37,656
Current expenditures 90,036 76,890 73,933 70,755 99,234 90,601 77,640 85,941 96,870
Receipts from recovered materials 56,202 53,166 57,965 60,635 57,453 51,651 52,187 68,085 90,464

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