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As the world grapples with numerous global challenges, including environmental issues, climate change, health crises, food insecurity, economic recovery, and human displacement, the need for knowledge integration has never been more critical. Amid a data landscape with fast-increasing volumes of data, information remains compartmentalised to pre-defined scales and fields, rarely building its way up to collective knowledge.

This is the first webinar of the webinar series on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) organized by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA). This webinar aims at providing a foundational understanding of the SEEA and how the SEEA can support national implementation of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

The Global Policy Forum on Natural Capital is the signature annual event of the G

The  event "New challenges for national statistical offices for environment and climate change statistics: Role of the SEEA" is organized jointly by the UNCEEA, UNSD and the IMFas a side event of the 55th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC).  The event will be held on Tuesday , 27 February 2023, from 13:15 to 13:30 in Conference Room A in the Conference Building of the United Nations in New York.

The London Group on Environmental Accounting is a city group of the United Nations Statistical Commission established in 1993 to provide a forum for practitioners to share their experience of developing and implementing environmental accounts. Members of the London group are experts primarily from national statistical agencies but also international organizations.

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), in collaboration with the National Statistics Bureau of Bhutan (NSB) are organizing a National Training Workshop on the SEEA Central Framework. The workshop will be held in Thimphu, Bhutan from 31 October to 3 November 2023 and will be conducted in English.

Background

This webinar will provide participants an overview of the purpose and importance of the Global Assessment of Environmental Economic Accounting and Supporting Statistics.  This year the Statistics Division of the United Nations will administer a benchmark assessment, which will provid

This course is organized by the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific.

Climate change is one of the most pressing policy issues for many African countries given its wide-ranging impacts on well-being. High quality, consistent data on the environment-economy nexus is needed to inform effective pathways for addressing climate change and related issues. Many national statistical offices (NSOs) of countries in the region have responded to this need by compiling various SEEA accounts, including taking steps towards compiling energy and air emission accounts which are among the most relevant accounts for informing climate change.