The Africa Natural Capital Accounting Policy Forum on Using Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) And Analysis to Inform Policies for Development, Climate Change and Nature Protection
Ecosystems and biodiversity play a critical role in underpinning sustainable development and socio-economic progress. The recently adopted “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (GBF) is a landmark framework that includes four goals and 23 targets to be achieved by 2030, as well as four long-term goals for 2050 related to the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity of living in harmony with nature.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), in collaboration with the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) are organizing a Regional Training Workshop on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecos
The Dissemination Workshop on the Land Cover Account and the National Plan took place in Dakar, Senegal on 16 February 2023 and aimed to publicly disseminate the results of the land cover account for Senegal and the National Plan for the Advancement of Environmental-economic Accounting in Senegal. The dissemination event was opened by the secretary-general of the Ministry of Economy, the Director-General of the National Agency for Statistics and Demography (ANSD), and the Resident Representative of UNHCR.
In the Asia-Pacific region, climate change is one of the most pressing policy issues given its wide-ranging impacts on well-being. High quality, consistent data on the environment-economy nexus is needed to inform effective pathways for addressing climate change and related issues.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) will begin data collection for Physical Energy Flow Accounts (PEFA) and Air Emission Accounts (AEA) for the first time in 2023. This webinar, organized by UNSD and OECD, will review the scope of the questionnaires, how to fill in the questionnaires, the timeline for data collection and more. The webinar will take place on 2 March at 9:30 AM, New York time. The webinar will also be recorded and made available online for those who are not able to join.
Taking place in Manila on 26-30 September 2022, UNSD and the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) are holding a workshop on land accounting.
In order to support the uptake of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) in member countries of the Gaborone Declaration for Sustainability in Africa (GDSA), UN Environment, the UN Statistics Div
The 2022 Workshop on Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting (EO4EA 2022) is organized by the European Space Agency in collaboration with the Environmental-Economic Account section of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Earth Observations for Ecosystem Accounting initiative of the
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.
