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Environmental goods and services sector account by economic activity

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Section Environment, Sustainable Development, Territory, email: umwelt@bfs.admin.ch
Gross value added and gross production value: CHF million; employees: full time equivalents
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Field for searching for a specific value in the list box. This is examples of values you can search for.CEPA 1 - Protection of ambient air and climate , CEPA 2 - Wastewater management , CEPA 3 - Waste management ,

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Field for searching for a specific value in the list box. This is examples of values you can search for.A - Agriculture, forestry and fishing , B - Mining and quarrying , C - Manufacturing ,

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Metainformation:
Last update: 12.12.2023; new data (year 2022), revised values (2000-2021)
Last change: 29.01.2024; the 2021 value of gross value added and the 2022 value of employees of CReMA 10 and NOGA branches E and O have been corrected.
Database status: January 2024
Reference period: calendar year
Spatial reference: Switzerland
Source: Environmental accounts - Environmental goods and services Cube description:
The environmental sector includes activities producing goods or services having the purpose of:
- Protecting the environment by preventing, reducing or eliminating pollution or any other environmental damage (e.g. waste management and the production of related goods, equipment, infrastructures and services).
- Managing natural resources by preserving, maintaining or increasing their stock in order to avoid their depletion (e.g. the production of renewable energy and of related goods, equipment, infrastructures and services). This statistical perimeter adopted internationally to measure the economic importance of the environmental sector includes also the production of goods specifically designed to be cleaner or more resource efficient than normal goods of equivalent use (e.g. low-energy certified buildings, energy-efficient appliance or products from organic farming or from sustainable forestry. The measurement of the economic importance of the environmental sector comes from the environmental accounting, coherently with the National accounts (SNA), which they complete with an environmental dimension. The measurement is based on already existing data only. The following activities are excluded from the environmental sector:
- Public transport - it is not considered an environmental activity as such even if it can contribute to protect the environment and safeguard natural resources insofar as it replaces motorized individual transport;
- Distribution and trade of environmental goods and services - the rationale is that in general the distribution of environmental products is not specifically designed to serve an environmental protection or a resource management purpose;
- Products manufactured from recovered materials (e.g. recycled paper) - the rationale is that products produced from recovered materials do not reduce the use of natural resources any more than the reduction already achieved due to the recovery of materials and the production of secondary raw materials;
- Environmentally friendly production of non-environmental goods and services (e.g. production of bread using green power or organic flour or biodegradable packaging);
- Non-environmental activities that are closely associated with the environment or using the environment directly in their production processes (e.g. collection, treatment and distribution of drinking water, extraction of mineral and fossil resources);
- Activities that may have a positive impact on the environment but serving primarily other purposes than the protection of the environment itself (e.g. to guarantee or to increase the safety and the health of workers at the work place, to protect infrastructures against natural or technological hazards, to purify water or air for specific industrial processes). Year 2022: provisional For more information: Environmental goods and services

Unit of measure

Gross value added: Millions of Swiss francs, at current prices
Gross production value: Millions of Swiss francs, at current prices
Employees: Full time equivalents