Economic aspects of environmental protection 2024
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The amount of outlays on fixed assets for environmental protection in 2024 amounted to approx. PLN 15.1 billion (compared to PLN 18.2 billion in 2023), and outlays on fixed assets for water management reached the level of approx. PLN 3.6 billion (PLN 4.3 billion in 2023). In 2024, outlays on environmental protection and water management accounted for 0.42% and 0.10% of GDP1, respectively (0.53% and 0.13% in 2023, respectively).
The biggest year to year decline in investments in 2024 was seen in relation to central heating, hot water supply and thermal insulation of buildings (by 1.0 billion PLN), wastewater management and water protection (by 0.9 billion PLN) and waste management (by 0.7 billion PLN).
As in previous years, enterprises are the main investor in outlays on fixed assets for environmental protection, followed by gminas, and then budgetary units. The group of investors with the highest share of outlays in the field of water management were gminas, then enterprises and budgetary units.
1 Source: GDP data available at: Poland macroeconomic indicators - update as of April 17, 2025.
