Environment costs of enterprises > 20 employees; key figures, 1985-2012
| Periods | Environmental investments Other environmental investments Total other environmental investments (mln euro) | Environmental investments Other environmental investments Soil (mln euro) | Environmental investments Other environmental investments Waste (mln euro) | Environmental investments Other environmental investments Noise (mln euro) | Environmental investments Other environmental investments Landscape (mln euro) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012* | 105 | 45 | 35 | 20 | 5 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||
Table explanation
This table shows key figures on the financial burden on industry caused by measures to protect the environment.
Key figures for 'Environment costs of industry' are available for 1985 and (annually) from 1990 up to and including 2012*.
Status of the figures:
Definite data are available for 1985-2011, and provisional data for 2012.
As this table is stopped, data will not be made definite anymore.
Changes as of 5 December 2014:
This table is stopped.
When will new figures be published?
Not relevant anymore, this table will be followed up by ‘Environment costs industry; key figures’. See paragraph 3.
Description topics
- Environmental investments
- Investments in production facilities that are less damaging to the environment, such as installations for air purification, waste water treatment plants, construction of impermeable flooring, acoustic measures, etc.
The investments are classified by environmental domain:
- Water
- Air
- Other (soil, waste, noise, landscape)
If an environmental investment itself causes environmental problems, the investment needed to tackle these new problems is allocated to the domain of the initial measure as far as possible.- Other environmental investments
- Total other environmental investments
- Environmental investments in the environmental domains soil, waste, noise and landscape.
- Soil
- Waste
- Noise
- Landscape