Working Paper 07-09 - The Belgian environment industry (1995-2005)

This study presents an overview of the evolution of the size, the composition and the economic importance of the environment industry in Belgium between 1995 and 2005. It shows which industries are involved and which environmental domains are most important.Industry study, Environmental goods and services

Working Paper 19-08 - Quantifying environmental leakage for Belgium

This paper illustrates the deficiency of the production approach as a tool to measure a country's responsibility for international environmental impacts. A use approach is presented as a more suitable tool. The difference between the two approaches is determined by a better grasp of international trade, which can lead to environmental leakage when a country specialises in the production of environmentally friendly products and has the environmentally unfriendly products which it consumes produced abroad. We show that in the period 1995-2002 Belgium was on average a provider of air emission intensive products for the rest of the world. Environmental leakage was mostly negative. However, the evolution of the Belgian environmental terms of trade shows that by 2002 its imports had become considerably more air emission intensive with respect to its exports than in 1995. There are indications that this evolution is due to a considerable increase of extra-EU imports of air emission intensive products. This in turn could point to environmentally inspired offshoring. However, the currently available data do not allow us to test this hypothesis.Environmental leakage, Environmental terms of trade, Input-output analysis

The PEACH2AIR database of air pollution associated with household consumption in Belgium in 2014

This report describes the database PEACH2AIR, which calculates air pollution linked to con- sumer expenditures in Belgium in 2014. The considered pollutants are greenhouse and acidifying gases, gases contributing to tropospheric ozone formation and particulate matter. This air pollution is calcu- lated at the consumption stage, i.e. the use of energy products by households, and at the production stage, i.e. the air pollution caused by the production of the goods and services purchased by households. To do this, PEACH2AIR relies on internationally standardized air pollution data (including air emis- sions accounts of the Federal Planning Bureau), input-output tables and the House-hold Budget Survey. Analyses for 2014 show that energy products, as well as food and non-alcoholic beverages, were the most air polluting expenditure categories