The state of environmental and economic monitoring system

The paper analyses the state of the system that monitors the functioning of environmental- economic systems. The results are presented in the yearly state reports ?About the state and protection of the environment in the Russian Federation? and the yearly state reports of the subjects of Federation ?About the state and protection of the environment?. The monitoring system has been significantly improved lately: the number of indices under control has increased, as well as new relative indices have been developed alongside with the absolute ones. The adoption of the state program of the Russian Federation “Environment protection for the years 2012 ? 2020” was one of the major contributions to the development of the system monitoring the functioning of ecological-economic systems. At the same time there is some data insufficiency of indices ? we have no relative indices characterizing contamination degree of ecological-economic systems connected with production resource capacity. Furthermore, monitoring system lacks indices characterizing the levels of physical (energy) impact on the ecological-economic systems.