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OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Papers

The series provides comparative evidence and analysis on SME and entrepreneurship performance and trends and on a broad range of policy areas, including SME financing, innovation, productivity, skills, internationalisation, and others.

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Assessing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption in SMEs

Towards a pilot dashboard of SME greening and green entrepreneurship indicators

This paper presents the first estimates of the OECD project “Towards a pilot dashboard of SME greening and green entrepreneurship indicators”, which is part of broader work of the OECD Committee on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (CSMEE) to support governments in making SMEs active players in the green transition. The paper first explains the rationale behind this measurement exercise, which relates to the importance of monitoring carbon emissions and energy consumption in the business sector, including SMEs, as governments strive to achieve their climate objectives. Thereafter, it gives an overview of the project methodology to produce estimates on the environmental footprint of SMEs. Finally, it presents the first estimates for the first five dashboard indicators: i) SME share of greenhouse gas emissions in the business sector; ii) SME share of energy consumption in the business sector; iii) SME greenhouse gas emissions (carbon) intensity; iv) SME energy intensity; v) SME energy price burden The paper also presents evidence on real SME electricity and gas consumption in Denmark thanks to pilot work with Statistics Denmark. A final Annex explains the project methodology in detail.

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Keywords: Small and medium enterprises, greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption
JEL: Q59: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Environmental Economics / Environmental Economics: Other; Y10: Miscellaneous Categories / Data: Tables and Charts / Data: Tables and Charts; Q49: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Energy / Energy: Other; C40: Mathematical and Quantitative Methods / Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics / Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics: General
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