Economy-wide material flows : European countries required more materials between 2000 and 2007.

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Hass (J), Popescu (C). http://temis.documentation.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/document.xsp?id=Temis-0076731

Sujets

• Consommation
• Économie
• Énergie
• Exportation
• Importation
• Matériau de construction
• Productivité

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• Publié par: temis-developpement-durable
• Publié le: 25 février 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Licence : En savoir +
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• Langue: English

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Environment and energy  Authors: Julie HASS, Cristina POPESCU

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S t a t i s t i c s i n f o c u s 9/2011

 Economy-wide material flows: European countries required more materials between 2000 and 2007  Economy-wide material flow accounts provide A 'resource-efficient Europe' is an initiative the information in tonnes about the physical flows European Commission launched as part of the of materials through our economies. The Europe 2020 strategy aiming to deliver smart, accounts provide an aggregate overview of the sustainable and inclusive growth. The initiative annual extraction of raw materials as well as of aims at decoupling economic growth from the the physical amounts of imports and exports. use of resources. Typically as economies grow, more materials In the EU-27, the average material consumption such as fossil fuels, biomass, construction per inhabitant was 16.5 tonnes in 2007, an materials and metals are needed, but the rate of increase of 5% since 2000. The EU-27 is a net increase is less than that of GDP, a phenomenon importer of materials. Net imports increased by known as decoupling which can also be over 25% from 2000 to 2007. observed for the EU-27.

Resource productivity of the European Union Resource productivity is the total amount of In absolute terms, DMC increased by about 8 % materials used by an economy in relation to from 2000 to 2007. Per capita, DMC increased economic activity. The development of resource somewhat less, by about 5% from 2000 to 2007. productivity over es insights into r w e h s e o t u h r e c r e  s d  e a c n o d u e p c li o  n t n i g o  m b m e e  i t c p  w r g o e r v e o i n d w t t h h e i  s u  s ta e k o i f n  g n  a p t l u a r c a e l . re1:ReFiguvitcudorpecruos 2 7,-2EUrfoyit edx(nI027000-0)=1002000

Resource use is measured as domestic material consumption (DMC). Resource productivity of the EU is expressed by the amount of GDP generated per unit of material consumed, i.e. GDP / DMC in euro per kg. Resource productivity in the EU-27 rose 7 % from 2000 to 2003, then decreased in 2004 but increased to slightly above the 2003 level by 2007 (Figure 1). Over the entire period 2000 to 2007 an increase of resource productivity of almost 8 % was observed. While the EU-27 GDP has continuously increased during the 2000 to 2007 period, the DMC declined until 2003. When the economy grows, at the same time as DMC is decreasing, this is called absolute decoupling of resource use from economic growth. We observe this type of situation for 2000 to 2003. From 2003 to 2007, however, DMC increased together with GDP at nearly the same rate (11 %).

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105 100 95 90 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Gross Domestic Product Domestic Material Consumption Resource Productivity as GDP/DMC DMC/capita Source: Eurostat and GDP in volume with reference year 2000 (at 2000 exchange rates) ( ine_ _onl data codes:env ac mfa, nama_gdp_k)

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