The Green Development Statistics Forum is organized by the Guizhou Provincial Bureau of Statistics on 7 July 2018 ias part of the broader event Eco Froum Global Annual Conference 2018 held in Guizyang Guizhou Province in China
The thematic discussion of the Green Development Statistics Forum will be centered around the theme "Serving Ecological Civilization Construction: Innovating Green Development Statistics".
The 6th World congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, is organized by the Department of Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg. The conference is organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Science and other research groups and departments in Gothenburg.
The UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) functions as an umbrella body to provide overall vision, coordination, prioritization and direction in the field of environmental-economic accounting. The UNCEEA meets once a year and is governed by the Bureau of the UNCEEA.
The thirteenth meeting of the UNCEEA will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York:
The Forum of Experts in SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA) will be held on 18-20 June 2018 at the Glen Cove Mansion Hotel & Conference Center, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York.
As part of the project “Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services” funded by the European Union, UNSD undertakes the second assessment mission to China together with the UN Environment from 21-29 May to provide technical assistance to the National Bureau Statistics (NBS) of China on 1) strengthening the national compilation of natural resource balance sheet on land, forestry and water, and 2) piloting ecosystem accounting in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Guizhou Province. &nb
The objective of the meeting is to establish and strengthen the dialogue between policy makers, environmental economists, ecosystem valuation practitioners and accountants, in the context of the Aichi Target 2 which calls to mainstream biodiversity in national accounts and action 5 of the European Union Biodiversity strategy of 2020, which calls to map and assess the state of ecosystems and their services, including economic valuation and integration into accounting and reporting systems.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), is organizing a training programme to strengthen the capacity of the countries of Western Asia and North Africa in support of the worldwide implementation of the SEEA 2012 Central Framework and environment-related Sustainable Development Goals indicators.
South Africa is one of the five pilot countries participating in an international project on ecosystem accounting. The project, entitled Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services, is led by the United Nations Statistics Division and UN Environment, with funding from the European Union.
Stats SA and SANBI are leading the project in South Africa and will work closely with a range of national and sub-national stakeholders to further develop ecosystem accounts nationally.
