From 19 to 23 September 2022, the UN Statistics Division ( UNSD), In collaboration with the the World Bank’s Global Program for Sustainability (GPS), conducted a scoping mission to advance the NCA Initiative in Ethiopia.
Land cover refers to the observed biophysical cover of the earth’s surface. Land cover provides a mean to assess landscape patterns and characteristics that are crucial for understanding environmental and ecological…
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In order to support the uptake of the SEEA EA in Africa, a training programme on the ARIES for SEEA was held in Kigali, Rwanda from 18-22 July 2022.
The UN Statistics Division (UNSD) and UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP) have launched a new e-learning course on SEEA Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA). The course which was developed under the overall…
In this issue you will find articles on “nature jobs” in the UK, recommendations to ministries of finance on nature-related risks, the U.S. marine satellite account and more. "Nature jobs" using environmental goods and…
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On 12 July, nearly 200 participants joined the side event Transforming Institutions to Build Back Greener: The Case for Natural Capital Accounting, which took place on the margins of the 2022 High-Level Political Forum on…
With natural capital underpinning all forms of life on earth, human well-being and the functioning of the socio-economic systems, it becomes pertinent to capture the value of the natural capital into statistics through System…
To help to reach the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity, negotiations are underway for the development of a new biodiversity framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity. This framework, currently know as the “post-2020…
The Seventeenth Meeting of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) took place virtually on 27-28 June 2022. More than 70 participants from national statistical offices and international…
The facilitated online course "Introduction to Ecosystem Accounting of the Environmental and Economic Accounting System (SCAE CE, in Spanish)”, held from 9 to 27 May 2022, and attended by more than155 participants from…
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As part of the NCAVES project, in parallel to the development of national level ecosystem accounts, a detailed and comprehensive set of ecosystem extent, condition and ecosystem services accounts have been piloted in India at…
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On 26-27 May, the G7 Ministers of Climate, Energy and the Environment met in Berlin to re-affirm their commitment to fighting the triple global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Importantly, a…