The Africa Regional Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) Policy Forum was held on Thursday, 21 November 2019. The objective of this event was to form a Regional Community of Practice on NCA for Africa: identifying common challenges and opportunities and to discuss how countries can support each other in mainstreaming natural capital considerations into policy. The Community of Practice will be supported by the World Bank, the Gaborone Declaration for a Sustainable Africa (GDSA), the United Nations Statistcs Division (UNSD) and the Government of Netherlands.
Events
Upcoming Events
18 November 2019 to 23 November 2019
From 18-23 November 2019, the 1st Africa Protected Areas Congress will be held to review Africa's overall progress towards implementing global commitments related to conservation as well as discuss challanges related to biodiversity and showcase inspiring African examples of sustainable solutions that harmonize conservation and human development goals.
18 November 2019 to 20 November 2019
The fourth global Forum on Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) for Better Policy will take place on 18-19 November 2019 in Kampala, Uganda. The Policy Forum is co-organized by the World Bank, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the Government of Netherlands, and the Government of Uganda.
13 November 2019 to 14 November 2019
The Eurostat Working Group on Forestry Statistics and Accounts will meet from 13-14 November 2019 at Eurostat in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. This technical meeting of official producers of forest accounts and forestry statistics in the European Union will discuss common data collection, methodolody, new regulations and current affairs.
Please find the event website here.
12 November 2019 to 14 November 2019
China is one of the project countries for the “Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services” (NCAVES) jointly implemented by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) in collaboration of the Secretariat of the
12 November 2019 to 15 November 2019
The Global Ocean Accounts Partnership will host the
05 November 2019 to 08 November 2019
This November (5 – 8), leading organizations in the natural capital space will convene in Madrid for a week of events, discussions and networking. See the link for more details.
Events include:
28 October 2019 to 31 October 2019
The Regional Training Workshop on the SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting for countries in Africa is jointly organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), Statistics South Africa, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Gaborone Declaration for Sustainability in Africa (GDSA), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
21 October 2019 to 25 October 2019
Celebrating 10 years of advancing ecosystem services science, policy and practice for a sustainable future
16 October 2019 to 17 October 2019
There is an increasing recognition within the private sector of the importance of including the environment in business decision making. A pre-requisite of this is the ability to incorporate environmental issues into business accounting and company reporting.