Environmental accounts

In this report, we describe the work done in connection with an EU grant project over the period August 2023 to December 2024. We investigate the statistical base for developing ecosystem accounts for nature-based tourism and recreation and evaluate different valuation methods. The main output of the project was the development and distribution of a survey on nature-based tourism and recreation.

The Norwegian government is in the process of specifying abatement targets applying to the period between 2030 and 2050 and will submit new pledges to the United Nations in 2025. To inform these processes, this report examines and discusses the costs and macroeconomic impacts on the Norwegian economy of introducing different greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets and target structures for 2035.

This article explores whether altruistic preferences toward households in poor high-temperature countries stimulate global warming policies within rich low-temperature countries that avoids damage from global warming.

Unmanaged and overgrown coastal heathlands represent a substantial fire hazard. We analyse how this hazard in Norwegian coastal heathlands is influenced by weather conditions, land management, and usage.

This report presents statistics on green goods and services in Norway for the first time. The statistics include the variables production, gross value added, employment and exports for the years 2018-2020.

The report explores methods for analysing the cost and emission impacts of altered policy instruments in climate policy in the short term.

In this report, we use National Accounts data from Statistics Norway to calculate the resource rent in the natural resource industries in Norway in the period from 1984 to 2022

Plastic has become a major environmental issue in recent years and is a topic of increasing attention. This report aims to create a more complete picture of plastic fluxes in Norway based on available data sources.

This working paper was prepared for the 28th meeting of the London Group held on September 26-29, 2022, in Siegburg, Germany. The paper discusses current progress on ocean accounting in Norway.

Effective carbon taxation is essential to achieving the green transition. However, there is typically stiff opposition to carbon taxation due to perceived or actual adverse equity and other impacts. Hence, a better understanding of which factors, including the use of tax revenue, can increase acceptability is essential.