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GDP and beyond – history

1968: adoption of System of National Accounts Early 70s– criticism to economic growth and the economic accounts– Key role of Jacques Mayer (Eurostat DG 1973-1977)

• UN Expert Group (chair Jacques Mayer) to discuss a• Framework to develop an integrated system of

demographical and social statistics, with instrumental analogies with SNA

• failed, but extension of social statistics + Social Report• chair of INSEE Working Group ‘Statistics, Accounting

and Economical Concepts for the Environment ’

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GDP and beyond – history

1987: Sustainable Development 2001: EU Sustainable Development strategydevelopment of Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs)2006: renewed EU Sustainable Development strategy

Governance cycle with bi-annual Eurostat monitoring reports

(100 Sustainable Development Indicators)

2005-2007-2009-2011

But still missing elements….

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GDP and beyond in recent years

Major European conference involving broad participation (statisticians, environmentalists, social policy makers)

(Nov 2007)

Commission produces political roadmap for actions ‘GDP and beyond’ in the short/medium term (Aug 2009)

Sponsorship Group launched by the European Statistical System (Feb 2010)

Sponsorship Group Report (November 2011)

Commission Statistical Work Programme (2012 & beyond)

Stiglitz Report

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1. Complementing GDP with environmental and social indicators A comprehensive environmental index Quality of life and well-being

2. Near real time information for decision-making More timely environmental indicators More timely social indicators

3. More accurate reporting on distribution and inequalities

4. Developing a European Sustainable Development Scoreboard

5. Extending National Accounts to environmental and social issues

Priorities set out in the European Roadmap 2009

Europe 2020

Towards

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Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

Europe 2020 strategy – GDP and beyond

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Intra-generational

Inter-generational

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Sponsorship Group recommendations Topic 1: Strengthening the household perspective & distributional aspects

Promoting existing national accounts data on household income & consumption– Adjusted household gross disposable income per capita

Providing information on distribution of income, consumption & wealth– Use the adjusted GDI of households as the reference

concept to link National Accounts (NA) data with social statistics

Encouraging compilation of balance sheet accounts for households

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Sponsorship Group recommendations Topic 2: Multi-dimensional measures of quality of life

EU Statistics on Income & Living Conditions (EU-SILC) as the core instrument– 2013 AHM on subjective well-being– Expert Group on QoL indicators

Complementing the coverage of the dimensions with additional data sources – LFS, EHIS, Time use

Deepening and improvement of analysis

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Sponsorship Group recommendationsTopic 3: Environmental sustainability – first priority actions

EP-Council Regulation on Environmental Economic Accounts

Develop energy flows accounts and derive indicators (e.g. energy use by economic activity)

Further develop indicators related to climate change

Develop early estimates of CO2 emissions based on monthly energy statistics

Derive “footprint indicators” using Supply/Use • Input/Output Tables (SUIOT) to look at the “consumer perspective” of global climate change

Explore production of a “raw material consumption” indicator

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domestic industries, 7.2

imports, 1.7

capital formation, 1.6

direct by private households 1.9

direct by private households 1.9

consumption expenditure 5.6

exports, 1.6

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Short Medium Long term

Develop environmental goods and services sector (EGSS)

Develop asset accounts for natural resources, including sub-soil assets and energy assets

Consolidate & simplify the environmental protection expenditure accounts (EPEA)

Use Land Use/Land Cover data to build relevant indicators on landscape and biodiversity

merge with existing framework for European environmental

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Sponsorship Group report recommendationsTopic 3: Environmental sustainability – second priority actions

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Short Medium Long term

Harmonise presentation and meta-data of existing waste indicators

Develop water accounts to map use of water according to economic activity

Improve data coverage & quality of existing water statistics & develop indicators for pressures on regional water resources

Develop waste accounts based on existing waste statistics

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Sponsorship Group report recommendationsTopic 3: Environmental sustainability – third priority actions

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Consistency with theory

Political relevance Measurability

Stiglitz

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Quality of Indicators

Need to bring all elements together

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Challenges

Implementation – first Commission reporting by end 2012 Liaising with other projects (eFrame) Giving broader society time to “catch up” with the statisticians

– Openness to the results of a broader societal reflection, e.g. civil society reflection with the EU

– Still evolving picture at national level

Moving forward but keeping some flexibility Selecting a dashboard of indicators Getting political acceptance and use of the data (long term)

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Figures for the future:20 years of sustainable development in Europe?