The Regional Training Workshop on the SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting for countries in Africa is jointly organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), Statistics South Africa, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Gaborone Declaration for Sustainability in Africa (GDSA), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
Events
Upcoming Events
28 October 2019 to 31 October 2019
21 October 2019 to 25 October 2019
Celebrating 10 years of advancing ecosystem services science, policy and practice for a sustainable future
16 October 2019 to 17 October 2019
The Eurostat meeting of Directors of Sectoral and Environmental Statistics and Accounts (DIMESA) will meet from 16-17 October 2019 at Eurostat in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. This management meeting of official producers of SEEA accounts in the European Union will discuss planning and projects covering the SEEA as well as energy statistics, transport statistics and GIS.
Please find the event website here.
16 October 2019 to 17 October 2019
There is an increasing recognition within the private sector of the importance of including the environment in business decision making. A pre-requisite of this is the ability to incorporate environmental issues into business accounting and company reporting.
14 October 2019 to 17 October 2019
Under the theme ”Solutions for welfare and sustainable development”, the III Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Protected Areas will be held from 14-17 October 2019. A space for experience exchange, debate on the formulation and implementation of public policies, research and academia, the Congress –created in 1997– is an initiative from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and its World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA).
07 October 2019 to 10 October 2019
The London Group on Environmental Accounting is a city group created in 1993 to allow practitioners to share their experience of developing and implementing environmental accounts. Members of this informal group of experts come primarily from national statistical agencies but also international organizations. The London Group generally meets annually, and the meetings provide a forum for review, comparison and discussion of work underway by participants towards development of environmental accounts.
25 September 2019 to 28 September 2019
The 20th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET20) will be held in Limassol, Cyprus, on 25-28 September 2019, focusing on Economic Policies for Low-Carbon Development.
04 September 2019
The event entitled Natural Capital Accounting in support of Land Degradation Neutrality is a side event which will take place on 4 September 2019 within the CoP14 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The event will focus on how the SEEA can inform pol
02 September 2019 to 13 September 2019
The fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14) is taking place from 2-13 September 2019.
Date: 2-13 September 2019
Venue: Vigyan Bhavan conference centre
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
10 July 2019 to 11 July 2019
South Africa’s first-ever national Natural Capital Accounting Forum will take place in Pretoria at Statistics South Africa’s Head Office, ISIbalo House, on 10-11 July 2019. The Forum is hosted by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in partnership with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). It aims to explore how natural capital accounting can support South Africa’s progress towards a green economy, including its linkages to South Africa’s National Development Plan (NDP) and the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).