Environmental Expenditure Growing

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: February 23, 2012; 17:47 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austrian environmental protection expenditure 2009: €12.7bn; expenditure doubled from 1995 to 2009.

Environmental Expenditure Growing / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Environmental protection expenditure in Austria accounted for €12.7bn in 2009. Compared to 1995, the first year under review, this expenditure has more than doubled (1995: €6.1bn).

In 2009, the majority of total expenditure (61.5%) was financed by companies (1995: 38.2%), 27.3% was financed by private households (1995: 26.4%), 9.0% by the public sector (1995: 30.1%) and 2.2%…