UNSD Meetings

The Virtual Expert Forum on SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA) 2020 will be held online in several sessions between June and September 2020 (see exact dates below). The Virtual Forum is organized by the United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme, and the World Bank, and is an activity under the “Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services” project funded by the European Union. 

The webinar is part of a series under the Africa Natural Capital Accounting Community of Practice organized in cooperation between UNSD and the World Bank Global Program on Sustainability, the Gaborone Declaration for Sustainability in Africa, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, the Conservation International and the Capitals Coalition. 

The webinar is part of a series under the Africa Natural Capital Accounting Community of Practice organized in cooperation between UNSD and the World Bank Global Program on Sustainability, the Gaborone Declaration for Sustainability in Africa, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, the Conservation International and the Capitals Coalition. 

The objective of the indicator workstream for the Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (NCAVES) project is to develop a systematic and consistent approach on the use of SEEA accounts to derive sustainable development indicators for national and global reporting purpose.

There is an increasing effort at the international and national level to develop an integrated information system to measure the linkage and interdependence between nature, economy and society for sustainable development.

The Technical Meeting on Valuation and Accounting for the revised SEEA EEA took place on 16 – 18 March 2020 over webex. The meeting provided the opportunity for 25 invited experts to discuss and agree on the key outstanding issues in this research area and clarify preferred treatments. The main objective of the meeting was to advance the research agenda on valuation and accounting in the SEEA EEA revision process and provide input and feedback on draft chapters.

United Nations Statistical Commission, 51st session (2020), side event

High-Level Panel: TAKING THE ENVIRONMENT INTO ACCOUNT

Meeting organized by United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental Economic Accounting

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Statistics, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), with support of Statistics Netherlands, is organizing the Regional T

The Africa Regional Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) Policy Forum was held on Thursday, 21 November 2019. The objective of this event was to form a Regional Community of Practice on NCA for Africa: identifying common challenges and opportunities and to discuss how countries can support each other in mainstreaming natural capital considerations into policy. The Community of Practice will be supported by the World Bank, the Gaborone Declaration for a Sustainable Africa (GDSA), the United Nations Statistcs Division (UNSD) and the Government of Netherlands.