Side event of the 53rd United Nations Statistical Commission: Closing Climate Change Data Gaps - A New G20 Data Gaps Initiative
This event is organized by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA), International Monetary Fund and United Nations Statistics Division
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SMDd8psdRrKTfujunkuHqg
The sixth Forum of Experts on SEEA Ecosystem Accounting took place on 7 & 8 December 2021 (7:00-10:00am NY time) in a virtual format.
The main objectives of the sixth Forum were to:
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in close collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Union Delegation to Brazil, are jointly organizing the National Forum on Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (NCAVES) project.&nbs
This e-Learning programme is organized by UNSD, in collaboration with the UN ESCAP. It provides an overview of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Central Framework (CF) and how it can be used for sustainable policy decisions. The e-Learning programme is directed towards select countries in Asia which have active SEEA programmes. In particular, the programme is aimed towards users and producers of SEEA accounts, with a focus on users of the 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.
Background
The high-level launch of the project "Environmental-Economic Accounting for Evidence-Based Policy in Malaysia" is a collaborative effort between the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD).
As part of the IUCN World Conservation Congress, the event Combing public and private forces to apply natural capital accounting will be held on-site in Marseille, France, to discuss opportunities for aligning public and private applications of natural capital accounting and assessments. It will focus on how businesses can use data derived from the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting for natural capital accounting and how it can be used to further standardize business applications.
This webinar is part of the UN Development Account Project, Environmental-Economic Accounting for Evidence-Based Policy in Africa and Asia. This webinar introduces the SEEA and land accounting to stakeholders in the project's Asia Pacific partner countries, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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.
