Environmentally extended input-output tables have become a powerful database for the evaluation of environmental and economic policies. They comprise useful information of satellite systems that are fully integrated into national accounts. Included are gross fixed capital formation, capital stock, employment, energy, air emissions, global warming, acid deposition, tropospheric ozone formation, waste, sewage, and water. A special feature of the extended input-output tables is that the data include information on values and quantities. For the promotion of this approach, I show a summary of the extended input-output tables of Germany for 2009 and 2019 on one page. The larger tables with 65 products and 65 homogenous branches are available on request. Emission models of input-output analysis enable estimating the domestic emissions for final uses of products for consumption, gross capital formation, and exports. However, they also provide a first approximation of foreign emissions, which are required abroad for German imports. The two results combined give a rough assessment of the total emissions world-wide to produce goods and services for final uses of Germany. The results revealed for the reported years that Germany started decoupling economic growth from energy consumption. This is a real achievement. Despite modest real economic growth, Germany successfully reduced the emission of gases during these ten years. However, the trend for emissions of imports is different. The emissions abroad to produce German imports stagnated in the same period. The new database will help identify the major environmental problems and general trends of economic development. It may also encourage appropriate environmental policies for preserving the natural environment.
Citation: Joerg Beutel. Environmentally extended input-output tables for Germany[J]. National Accounting Review, 2026, 8(3): 326-346. doi: 10.3934/NAR.2026014
Environmentally extended input-output tables have become a powerful database for the evaluation of environmental and economic policies. They comprise useful information of satellite systems that are fully integrated into national accounts. Included are gross fixed capital formation, capital stock, employment, energy, air emissions, global warming, acid deposition, tropospheric ozone formation, waste, sewage, and water. A special feature of the extended input-output tables is that the data include information on values and quantities. For the promotion of this approach, I show a summary of the extended input-output tables of Germany for 2009 and 2019 on one page. The larger tables with 65 products and 65 homogenous branches are available on request. Emission models of input-output analysis enable estimating the domestic emissions for final uses of products for consumption, gross capital formation, and exports. However, they also provide a first approximation of foreign emissions, which are required abroad for German imports. The two results combined give a rough assessment of the total emissions world-wide to produce goods and services for final uses of Germany. The results revealed for the reported years that Germany started decoupling economic growth from energy consumption. This is a real achievement. Despite modest real economic growth, Germany successfully reduced the emission of gases during these ten years. However, the trend for emissions of imports is different. The emissions abroad to produce German imports stagnated in the same period. The new database will help identify the major environmental problems and general trends of economic development. It may also encourage appropriate environmental policies for preserving the natural environment.
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Joerg Beutel. Environmentally extended input-output tables for Germany[J]. National Accounting Review, 2026, 8(3): 326-346. doi: 10.3934/NAR.2026014
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