Objective of the meeting

Objective

The objective of the consultation meeting is to have consultations with relevant stakeholders in India with a view to have a shared understanding of the national and international context for the project Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Service.  The mission will also include detailed discussions with the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation  of the Government of India (MOSPI/CSO)  to agree on the project plan and other coordination issues to launch the Project in India.

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 Regional Training Workshop on the SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting for Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean is jointly organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), and the European Union.

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.

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 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.

Background

STATS South Africa is hosting the stakeholder consultation meeting for the project "Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services" in Pretoria on 20- 21 September 2017.