Green National Accounts for Denmark 2015-2016

The green national accounts for Denmark supplement the traditional national accounts with information on the connection between the economy and the environment using the SEEA. The accounts include three main types of information. The first type concerns the use of materials, energy and water as well as the resulting residuals in the form of waste, wastewater and air emissions. The second type concerns various aspects of the green economy: environmental protection, output of environmental goods and services as well as environmental taxes etc. The third type of information in the green national accounts concerns Denmark’s natural resources in the form of land, oil and natural gas as well as forest and fish.