Overview

The UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) has launched a new webinar series in 2024. The webinars, developed by the UNCEEA's Working Group on Coordination and Communication, aim to highlight various priority and/or emerging policy areas that can be informed by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA).

The main goals of the webinar series are to:

• Showcase the benefits of the SEEA
• Demonstrate how the SEEA can address policy questions
• Explore areas where the SEEA could potentially play a role in informing policy and decision-making.

The webinars will also provide an opportunity to bring together experts from various disciplines, including statisticians, policy makers, environmental accountants, national accountants, ecologists and other interested parties.

Webinar sessions 

	Using the SEEA for Monitoring and Informing the Global Biodiversity Framework
	15 April 2024, 7:30 -9:30 a.m. (NY time)
This webinar will introduce participants to the statistical framework,  the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting, and how it is being used for indicators A.2 Extent of natural ecosystems and B.1 Services provided by ecosystems. The webinar will also discuss the role of interinstitutional collaboration for the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Monitoring Framework.  More details, including registration, can be found here.

	Implementation of the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting: Recent country experiences and the pathway to synergies with the Global Biodiversity Framework
	20 May 2024, 7:30 -9:30 a.m. (NY time)
This webinar will provide an opportunity for participants to learn about recent country experiences in compiling the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting, the statistical framework underlying headline indicators A.2 Extent of natural ecosystems and B.1 Services provided by ecosystems.  The webinar will look at these experiences from a technical and practical standpoint, with a view to how the accounts can feed into countries monitoring and reporting efforts to the Global Biodiversity Framework. More details, including registration, can be found here.