London Group on Environmental Accounting, 8th meeting

8th Meeting of the London Group on Environmental Accounting

5 - 7 November 2003, Rome, Italy

DOCUMENTATION FOR THE MEETING

AgendaPDF
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS FOR THE MEETING
AGENDA ITEM 1Opening (FAO)
AGENDA ITEM 2Country updates (London Group participants)
Paper by Canada
Paper by Chile
Paper by Denmark
Paper by Norway
Paper by Sweden
Paper by the United Kingdom
AGENDA ITEM 3Handbook on Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting for Water Resources (SEEAW)
3a. SEEAW: Objectives, policy uses and framework
Handbook on Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting for Water Resources (SEEAW) (Ilaria DiMatteo, UNSD)
3b. SEEAW: Asset accounts
Introduction (Ilaria DiMatteo, UNSD)
Water accounting at Statistics Canada: The asset account for inland fresh water (Martin Lemire and François Soulard, Statistics Canada)
Paper
Water physical accounts: from occasional estimates to regular production (Philippe Crouzet, IFEN)
Paper
3c. SEEAW: Supply and use tables
Introduction (Christine Spanneut, In-Numeri)
The Danish NAMEA water accounts with examples of its use (Thomas Olsen, Statistics Denmark)
Paper
Physical water accounts - South Africa's first attempt (Aneme Malan, Statistics South Africa)
3d. SEEAW: Monetary flows
Introduction (Christine Spanneut, In-Numeri)
Valuation of water resources (Glenn Marie Lange, Columbia University)
Data issues for water resources assessment and water use in agriculture (Karen Frenken, FAO-Aquastat)
Conclusions from the SEEAW sessions (Alessandra Alfieri and Ilaria Di Matteo, UNSD and Christine Spanneut, In-Numeri)
AGENDA ITEM 4Sub-soil asset accounts
Accounting for subsoil assets in the Australian National Accounts (Adam Sincock, Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Paper
Path forward for sub-soil asset accounts (Ole Gravgård, Statistics Denmark)
Paper
AGENDA ITEM 5Handbook on Fishery Resource Accounting
Handbook on Fishery Resource Accounting (UNSD/FAO)
AGENDA ITEM 6Forest accounts
Recent developments in Swedish forest accounts (Marianne Eriksson and Viveka Palm, Statistics Sweden)
Paper
Environmental and economic accounts for forestry: Past, current and future efforts (Yves Dubé, FAO)
Draft manual
Path forward on forest accounting (Jukka Muukkonen, Statistics Finland)
AGENDA ITEM 7Land and ecosystem accounts
Integrating land quality changes in economic accounting at farm level: Applications and lessons learned from compilation sites (Pilar Santacoloma, FAO)
Development of built up and traffic areas by economic activities in Germany 1993 to 2001 - Approaches for an environmental-economic analysis (Karl Schoer, Federal Statistical Office Germany)
Paper
Development of land and ecosystems accounts in Europe - Implementation of land cover accounts and discussion of accounts of land use functions (Jean-Louis Weber, European Environment Agency)
Paper
Path forward on land and ecosystem accounts (Rocky Harris, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom)
Paper
AGENDA ITEM 8Lessons learned from SEEA revision and path forward on unresolved issues
Unresolved issues and future work
Paper
AGENDA ITEM 9Open discussion of future work programme of London Group
AGENDA ITEM 10Summary of meeting
Event Date
From 5 Nov 2003 to 7 Nov 2003
Time
From 1:30pm to 10:30pm (UTC)