Greenhouse Emissions of the Spanish Healthcare Sector Increased by 1.6% in 2023

Spanish healthcare activity fails sustainability. In the last year, the sector has increased its greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere by 1.6% compared to the 2022 figure, according to data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

In total, healthcare activity generated 1.19 million tons of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere in 2023. The figure for the last year contrasts with the improvement recorded by the sector in 2022, when emissions were reduced by 1.2%.

Greenhouse gas emissions of the Spanish healthcare sector increased in 2023 compared to 2022

Despite the increase in 2023, the figure is below the record of the decade , when in 2021 the sector generated 1.21 million tons of GHG into the atmosphere, which represented a year-on-year increase of 2.1%.

Pharmaceutical manufacturing, for its part, did improve in sustainability over the past year. The sector generated 8.57 million tons of GHG into the atmosphere in 2023, which represents a 6.4% decrease compared to the previous year. In fact, the figure recorded in the last year was the lowest since 2017, when pharmaceutical manufacturing generated 8.53 million tons of GHG.

The Atmospheric Emissions Account records emissions produced by resident economic units, both within the economic territory and outside it, according to the INE. In 2023, the country’s greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 5.5% and stood at 287.7 million tons.

Households emitted 22.9% of total greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, the manufacturing industry accounted for 22.3%, and agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing, 16.6%.

The branches of activity that saw the greatest reduction in greenhouse gas emissions were the supply of electricity, gas, steam, air conditioning and water (18.1%) and the manufacturing industry (10.1%). Transport and storage services, on the other hand, saw an increase of 3.1%.

Environmental Accounting aims to integrate environmental information in a coherent manner into the central system of National Accounts. It comprises a set of satellite accounts, transmitted annually, prepared from accounting formats applicable to the different sectoral and territorial areas, with a strong presence of physical data. It shows the interactions between the economy, households and environmental factors.

The air emissions accounts present data on pollutant emissions into the atmosphere in a manner compatible with the System of National Accounts, recording the emitting agents broken down by branches of economic activity and households as final consumers.

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