The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Statistics, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), with support of Statistics Netherlands, is organizing the Regional T
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.
The event entitled Natural Capital Accounting in support of Land Degradation Neutrality is a side event which will take place on 4 September 2019 within the CoP14 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The event will focus on how the SEEA can inform pol
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
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.
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.
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).
The Technical Expert Meeting on the revision of the SEEA EEA 2019 was held on 28 and 29 June 2019 in Glen Cove, New York, USA. The Expert Meeting was organized by the United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme, and the World Bank, and was an activity under the “Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services” project funded by the European Union.
