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Swedish Experience Using Environmental Accounts Data for Integrated Product Policy Issues

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  • Viveka Palm
  • Göran Finnveden
  • Anders Wadeskog

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This article quantifies and ranks the environmental pressure caused by different product groups consumed in Sweden. This is done using information from economic and environmental statistics. An analysis for the year 1998 is performed for approximately 50 product groups using input‐output analysis. This type of analysis has some major advantages for integrated product policy (IPP) purposes: the underlying data are regularly updated, the data systems are being harmonized by international standards, and the connection between environmental goals and IPP goals can be investigated. This article summarizes two Swedish reports, one for the Producer Responsibility Committee and one for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The results show that the volume of consumption is an important factor in environmental pressure from products as well as impact intensities. The most important product categories for private consumption are petroleum products, electricity, construction, and food and beverages, as well as transport. Possibilities of building indicators for IPP are also discussed.

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  • Viveka Palm & Göran Finnveden & Anders Wadeskog, 2006. "Swedish Experience Using Environmental Accounts Data for Integrated Product Policy Issues," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale University, vol. 10(3), pages 57-72, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:inecol:v:10:y:2006:i:3:p:57-72
    DOI: 10.1162/jiec.2006.10.3.57
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    1. Tukker, Arnold & Poliakov, Evgueni & Heijungs, Reinout & Hawkins, Troy & Neuwahl, Frederik & Rueda-Cantuche, José M. & Giljum, Stefan & Moll, Stephan & Oosterhaven, Jan & Bouwmeester, Maaike, 2009. "Towards a global multi-regional environmentally extended input-output database," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(7), pages 1928-1937, May.
    2. Palm, Viveka & Larsson, Maja, 2007. "Economic instruments and the environmental accounts," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(4), pages 684-692, March.
    3. Tukker, Arnold & Goldbohm, R. Alexandra & de Koning, Arjan & Verheijden, Marieke & Kleijn, René & Wolf, Oliver & Pérez-Domínguez, Ignacio & Rueda-Cantuche, Jose M., 2011. "Environmental impacts of changes to healthier diets in Europe," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(10), pages 1776-1788, August.
    4. Beylot, Antoine & Villeneuve, Jacques, 2015. "Assessing the national economic importance of metals: An Input–Output approach to the case of copper in France," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 161-165.
    5. Kramers, Anna & Wangel, Josefin & Johansson, Stefan & Höjer, Mattias & Finnveden, Göran & Brandt, Nils, 2013. "Towards a comprehensive system of methodological considerations for cities' climate targets," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 1276-1287.

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