Latest SEEA news

UNEP develops a compiler to assist countries build Economy-Wide Material Flow Accounts

03 April 2023
In March 2023, UNEP published the Compiler for Economy-Wide Material Flow Accounts. The EW-MFA Compiler was developed by UNEP in consultation with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to support countries in building Economy-Wide Material Flow Accounts. 

Assessing the state of the SEEA: 2022 Global Assessment of Environmental-Economic Accounting

15 March 2023
The UN Statistics Division (UNSD) released the results of the 2022 Global Assessment of Environmental-Economic Accounting and

SEEA Highlights of the 54th UN Statistical Commission

13 March 2023
After two years of meeting virtually, the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) met for their 54th at UN Headquarters in New York from 28 February to 3 March 2023. Read more about the SEEA-related highlights of the Commission.

Senegal Takes Steps Towards SEEA Accounts with the release of Land Cover Accounts and a National Plan

10 March 2023
From 13 to 15 February, the National Agency for Statistics and Demography (ANSD) of Senegal hosted the Technical Workshop on the Compilation of Ecosystem Extent Accounts in its offices in Dakar, Senegal.

Making Nature Count at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15)

19 January 2023
Read about the SEEA side-event of the UN Biodiversity Conference, Making Nature Count through Natural Capital Accounting, which took place on 9 December 2022.

Advancing the Use of Earth Observations in Ecosystem Accounting

18 January 2023
The European Space Agency (ESA), the Environmental-Economic Accounts section of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounts initiative of the

Resource corner SEEA News and Notes. Issue 20

17 January 2023
In this issue you will find resources on salt marshes ecosystem accounts in Canada, measuring urban greenness for Canadian population centers, measuring the sustainability of tourism, UK GHG emissions, UK Natural capital accounts 2022,  IMF Quarterly Air Emissions accounts, DESA's policy brief on NCA and much more.

UNEP launched an online training course on one of the EW-MFA components – Domestic Extraction

02 January 2023
In November 2022, UNEP launched an online training course on Domestic Extraction, which is a component

South Asia Regional Webinar on SEEA for Climate Change

16 December 2022
The South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC) and the IMF Statistics Department conducted a virtual workshop titled Introduction to Climate Change Indicators for Economic Analysis and Policy Formulation (October 31-November 3, 2022) for o