Environmental protection costs are the expenses paid for environmental protection. This includes investments and current expenditures. Statistics Sweden each year conducts a survey of environmental protection expenditures within the industrial sector
Swedish industry’s total environmental protection expenditure amounted to SEK 23 billion in 2021, which is 11 percent more than in 2020. This change is due to increases in current environmental protection expenditure and investments.
Swedish industry’s investments in environmental protection reduce by 13 percent in 2022. At the same time the current expenditures increase by 12 percent which implies that the total expenditures on environmental protection in 2022 remains on a similar le
