London Group on Environmental Accounting, 8th meeting

8th Meeting of the London Group on Environmental Accounting

5 - 7 November 2003, Rome, Italy

DOCUMENTATION FOR THE MEETING

     
Agenda PDF    
     
 
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS FOR THE MEETING
 
 
AGENDA ITEM 1 Opening (FAO)
 
AGENDA ITEM 2 Country updates (London Group participants)
  Paper by Canada
  Paper by Chile
  Paper by Denmark
  Paper by Norway
  Paper by Sweden
  Paper by the United Kingdom
 
AGENDA ITEM 3 Handbook on Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting for Water Resources (SEEAW)
   
  3a. SEEAW: Objectives, policy uses and framework
   
  Handbook on Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting for Water Resources (SEEAW) (Ilaria DiMatteo, UNSD)
   
  3b. SEEAW: Asset accounts
   
  Introduction (Ilaria DiMatteo, UNSD)
   
  Water accounting at Statistics Canada: The asset account for inland fresh water (Martin Lemire and François Soulard, Statistics Canada)
  Paper  
   
  Water physical accounts: from occasional estimates to regular production (Philippe Crouzet, IFEN)
  Paper  
   
  3c. SEEAW: Supply and use tables
   
  Introduction (Christine Spanneut, In-Numeri)
   
  The Danish NAMEA water accounts with examples of its use (Thomas Olsen, Statistics Denmark)
  Paper  
   
  Physical water accounts - South Africa's first attempt (Aneme Malan, Statistics South Africa)
   
  3d. SEEAW: Monetary flows
   
  Introduction (Christine Spanneut, In-Numeri)
   
  Valuation of water resources (Glenn Marie Lange, Columbia University)
   
  Data issues for water resources assessment and water use in agriculture (Karen Frenken, FAO-Aquastat)
   
  Conclusions from the SEEAW sessions (Alessandra Alfieri and Ilaria Di Matteo, UNSD and Christine Spanneut, In-Numeri)
 
AGENDA ITEM 4 Sub-soil asset accounts
   
  Accounting for subsoil assets in the Australian National Accounts (Adam Sincock, Australian Bureau of Statistics)
  Paper  
   
  Path forward for sub-soil asset accounts (Ole Gravgård, Statistics Denmark)
  Paper  
 
AGENDA ITEM 5 Handbook on Fishery Resource Accounting
   
  Handbook on Fishery Resource Accounting (UNSD/FAO)
 
AGENDA ITEM 6 Forest accounts
   
  Recent developments in Swedish forest accounts (Marianne Eriksson and Viveka Palm, Statistics Sweden)
  Paper  
   
  Environmental and economic accounts for forestry: Past, current and future efforts (Yves Dubé, FAO)
  Draft manual  
   
  Path forward on forest accounting (Jukka Muukkonen, Statistics Finland)
 
AGENDA ITEM 7 Land and ecosystem accounts
   
  Integrating land quality changes in economic accounting at farm level: Applications and lessons learned from compilation sites (Pilar Santacoloma, FAO)
   
  Development of built up and traffic areas by economic activities in Germany 1993 to 2001 - Approaches for an environmental-economic analysis (Karl Schoer, Federal Statistical Office Germany)
  Paper  
   
  Development of land and ecosystems accounts in Europe - Implementation of land cover accounts and discussion of accounts of land use functions (Jean-Louis Weber, European Environment Agency)
  Paper  
   
  Path forward on land and ecosystem accounts (Rocky Harris, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom)
  Paper  
 
AGENDA ITEM 8 Lessons learned from SEEA revision and path forward on unresolved issues
   
  Unresolved issues and future work
  Paper  
 
AGENDA ITEM 9 Open discussion of future work programme of London Group
 
AGENDA ITEM 10 Summary of meeting

Event Date

Wednesday, 05 November 2003 - 8:30am to Friday, 07 November 2003 - 5:30pm