The Impact of Industry on the Environment

Abstract

— The direct environmental aspects are basically emissions to the atmosphere, discharges into the aquatic environment, waste management, exploitation of natural resources and contamination of soil, utilization of natural resources and row material, local nuisance, transportation problem, environmental accident and effects on biological diversity. Activities, products and services of a company may cause significant environmental aspects that are beyond its control. Those are named indirect environmental aspects. In this context, the goal of our study is to show annual greenhouse gases emitted by industrial activities in the European Union countries for the period 2008-2016 and to develop recommendations for reducing environmental damage. Our approach goes to make statistical analysis and we will first examine greenhouse gas emissions by source sector and greenhouse gas emissions intensity of energy consumption. European environment agency and Eurostat data will be our main data in our statistical analysis.