| Development of environment-related technologies | Percentage of all technologies |  Environment-related technologies | | 13.08 | 12.01 | 10.3 | 9.83 | 10.38 | 9.88 | 10.5 | 10.04 | 9.06 |
| Relative advantage | | 1.04 | 0.94 | 0.82 | 0.83 | 0.89 | 0.88 | 0.92 | 0.91 | 0.88 |
| Percentage of inventions worldwide | | 0.81 | 0.74 | 0.63 | 0.63 | 0.68 | 0.66 | 0.7 | 0.63 | 0.58 |
| Inventions per capita | | 14.11 | 13.37 | 11.42 | 11.22 | 11.52 | 10.9 | 11.78 | 10.49 | 9.06 |
| Inventions per unit of government R&D | | 0.77 | 0.82 | 0.71 | 0.47 | 0.51 | 0.65 | 0.65 | 0.47 | 0.51 |
| Percentage of environment-related technologies. By domain | Environment-related technologies | General environmental management | | 24.03 | 25.75 | 21.45 | 20.25 | 18.75 | 19.88 | 23.08 | 22.87 | 24.1 |
| Climate change mitigation | Climate change mitigation technologies related to energy generation, transmission or distribution | | 23.19 | 20.71 | 22.2 | 19.19 | 23.81 | 23.88 | 17.58 | 19.88 | 21.92 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies in the production or processing of goods | | 10.78 | 13.3 | 8.63 | 9.48 | 9 | 12.64 | 13.29 | 10.58 | 14.22 |
| Climate change mitigation in information and communication technologies (ICT) | | 0.7 | 1.46 | 1.51 | 2.12 | 2.32 | 1.7 | 1.55 | 0.81 | 0.95 |
| Capture, storage, sequestration or disposal of greenhouse gases | | 2.54 | 1.06 | 1.23 | 1.71 | 0.76 | 2.09 | 1.57 | 1.39 | 2.24 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to transportation | | 4.9 | 4.68 | 5.28 | 3.9 | 5.47 | 6.91 | 4.55 | 7.25 | 3.4 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to buildings | | 3.68 | 6.9 | 12.78 | 7.62 | 11.76 | 6.01 | 6.26 | 5.69 | 5.36 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to wastewater treatment or waste management | | 3.97 | 3.83 | 3.02 | 4.45 | 3.22 | 3.37 | 5.2 | 4.71 | 2.98 |
| Climate change adaptation technologies | | 17.11 | 17.56 | 18.58 | 25.74 | 20.48 | 18.19 | 19.97 | 20.41 | 22.71 |
| Sustainable ocean economy | | 9.09 | 4.76 | 5.33 | 5.54 | 4.44 | 5.34 | 6.94 | 6.41 | 2.12 |
| Diffusion of environment-related technologies | Percentage of all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 11.97 | 11.13 | 10.56 | 9.57 | 8.93 | 8.76 | 8.46 | 8.73 | 8.1 |
| Percentage of inventions worldwide | | 3.14 | 2.71 | 2.47 | 2.25 | 1.99 | 1.98 | 2.09 | 2.21 | 2.03 |
| Percentage of environment-related technologies. By domain | Environment-related technologies | General environmental management | | 21.09 | 21.81 | 20.21 | 21.34 | 21.17 | 19.41 | 17.76 | 19.83 | 19.46 |
| Climate change mitigation | Climate change mitigation technologies related to energy generation, transmission or distribution | | 21.59 | 22.19 | 22.35 | 19.59 | 19.24 | 22.07 | 18.12 | 20.24 | 19.82 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies in the production or processing of goods | | 10.68 | 10.39 | 8.7 | 9.45 | 10.05 | 10.24 | 8.5 | 8.48 | 9.35 |
| Climate change mitigation in information and communication technologies (ICT) | | 1.4 | 1.91 | 1.85 | 3.37 | 2.06 | 2.57 | 2.99 | 2.82 | 1.68 |
| Capture, storage, sequestration or disposal of greenhouse gases | | 2.28 | 2.13 | 2.06 | 1.94 | 1.41 | 1.32 | 1.46 | 1.05 | 1.09 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to transportation | | 4.31 | 5.38 | 5.52 | 4.49 | 5.03 | 4.35 | 4.61 | 5.29 | 5.46 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to buildings | | 4.2 | 4.44 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 5.34 | 6.12 | 3.68 | 3.79 |
| Climate change mitigation technologies related to wastewater treatment or waste management | | 3.3 | 3.59 | 3.44 | 3.9 | 3.27 | 3.92 | 3.19 | 3.89 | 3.97 |
| Climate change adaptation technologies | | 26.2 | 22.31 | 24.7 | 26.59 | 26.9 | 26.39 | 32.49 | 29.62 | 30.54 |
| Sustainable ocean economy | | 4.94 | 5.86 | 6.38 | 4.92 | 5.66 | 4.41 | 4.75 | 5.09 | 4.84 |
| International collaboration in development of environment-related technologies | Percentage of collaborations in all technologies | Environment-related technologies | | 8.02 | 10.73 | 9.81 | 7.82 | 6.93 | 7.26 | 5.43 | 6.27 | 5.74 |
| Propensity to collaborate with foreign countries in environment-related technologies | Total patents | | 547.2 | 596.48 | 584.64 | 663.75 | 599.76 | 597.68 | 616.28 | 592 | 546.56 |
| Environment-related technologies | | 58.52 | 58 | 55.51 | 58.08 | 47.52 | 46.2 | 42.12 | 44.08 | 30.38 |
| Development of renewable energy technologies | Inventions per unit of public RD&D | | 1.52 | 0.65 | 0.5 | 0.21 | 1.21 | 0.69 | 1.91 | 1.36 | 1.54 |