Development of an integrated economic,
environmental and sustainability policy, respectively
integrating environmental concerns into other policy
areas, explains the increasing demand on indicators for
measuring progress. Among EU policy initiatives is the
sixth action program, which is an EU sustainable
development strategy on a sectorial level -the Cardiff
process. The main areas that have an interest in all these
documents relate to climate change, sustainable
transport, nature and diversity, health and environment,
use of natural resources, waste management, etc. User
needs may differ slightly from one country to another
and correspond to specific national endowments. But the
main elements of the standard environmental accounts
are similar: a selection of natural resource accounts,
expenses, activities and environmental taxes, etc.
Priorities for future developments include areas like
water, waste, including the environmental chapter”
(quality of water, air, soil, ecosystems). Based on a
profound analysis of the political demand and on the
users need, the work group ESEA identified
environmental accounting modules who directly respond
to this request