Environmental Accounts for Ireland 1994-2000

The aim of the present accounts is to show how economic developments by industry impact on the environment and on the economy as a whole in a more objective, and systematic way. The idea is to list in quantifiable terms the amount of potential pollutants produced by industry and households, which can be compared to employment and value of output produced by these sectors. Due to the difficulties in dealing with aspects of environmental accounts in monetary terms, physical data is used instead which can be linked to the main accounts to describe the effects of pollution. This publication represents the third set of environmental satellite accounts for Ireland. They set out a longitudinal series of air emissions in respect of the years 1994-2000 and have been compiled by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).