UNSD Meetings

The London Group on Environmental Accounting is a city group created in 1993 to allow practitioners to share their experience of developing and implementing environmental accounts. Members of this informal group of experts come primarily from national statistical agencies but also international organizations. The London Group generally meets annually, and the meetings provide a forum for review, comparison and discussion of work underway by participants towards development of environmental accounts. 

High quality, consistent data on the environment-economy nexus is needed to inform effective pathways for addressing climate change, biodiversity losses and related issues. National statistical offices (NSOs) in the Central Asia and the Caucasus have expressed strong interest in compiling various SEEA accounts, including taking steps towards compiling energy and air emission accounts which are among the most relevant accounts for informing climate change.

The workshop entitled "ARIES for SEEA" covered essential topics related to the ARIES for SEEA platform. Participants learned about ecosystem extent accounts. Practical exercises and discussions enhanced understanding and provided hands-on experience.

The session entitled "Integrated Modelling for Ecosystem Extent Mapping and Ecosystem Services" aimed to present various initiatives on developing ecosystem extent maps and models for ecosystem services and discussed how these initiatives and tools could be used to support the compilation of SEEA ecosystem accounts and facilitate reporting under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), through focusing on indicators A.2 “Extent of natural ecosystems” and B.1 “Services provided by ecosystems.”

The session entitled "Informing Biodiversity Policies through the Use of Big Data, Remote Sensing, and Citizen Science” was organized as technical session at the 8

This webinar is part of the SEEA Webinar series “Uses of the SEEA for Policy, developed with the aim to highlight various priority and/or emerging policy areas that can be informed by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA).

The UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) functions as an umbrella body to provide overall vision, coordination, prioritization and direction in the field of environmental-economic accounting. The UNCEEA meets once a year and is governed by the Bureau of the UNCEEA.