Economic aspects of environmental protection 2025
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The amount of outlays on fixed assets for environmental protection in 2025 amounted to approx. PLN 18.1 billion (compared to PLN 15.1 billion in 2024), and outlays on fixed assets for water management reached the level of approx. PLN 4.8 billion (PLN 3.6 billion in 2024). In 2025, outlays on environmental protection and water management accounted for 0.46% and 0.12% of GDP[1], respectively (0.42% and 0.10% in 2024, respectively).
The biggest year to year increase in investments in 2025 was seen in relation to waste management (by 1.3 billion PLN), wastewater management and water protection (by 1.1 billion PLN) and air protection (by 0.3 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, 2026.
