UNSD Meetings

Transforming Institutions to Build Back Greener: The Case for Natural Capital Accounting

 

There is growing recognition that building back better must also mean building back greener. The twin crises of climate change and biodiversity degradation pose a dire threat to recovery efforts and economic progress. Effective and successful efforts to reduce global emissions and protect biodiversity require that public institutions work in partnership – across ministries as well as with civil society and the private sector – and design policies that protect the environment while enhancing livelihoods and wellbeing.  

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African NCA Community of Practice Webinar: ARIES for SEEA for rapid natural capital accounts generation: Towards fast, transparent and standardized yet customizable ecosystem accounts

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. 

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17th Meeting of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting

The UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) functions as an umbrella body to provide overall vision, coordination, prioritization and direction in the field of environmental-economic accounting. The UNCEEA meets once a year and is governed by the Bureau of the UNCEEA. 

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Curso de  Introducción a la Contabilidad de Ecosistemas del Sistema de Contabilidad Ambiental y Económica para países de América Latina y el Caribe

La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) está organizando   el curso virtual sobre el Sistema de Contabilidad Ambiental y Económica - Contabilidad de Ecosistemas (SCAE-CE0 [System of Environemntal-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA)] que se llevará a cabo del 9 al 27 de mayo

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System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA): e-Learning course

The e-Learning course System of Environmental Economic Accounting: Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) was jointly organized by the UN Statistics Division (UNSD) and the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP) from 11 April to 10 June 2022. 

The course introduced the SEEA EA, the international statistical standard for organizing data about ecosystems, measuring ecosystem services, tracking changes in ecosystem assets, and linking this information to economic and other human activity.

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