Top global experts discuss why it’s time to move beyond GDP and value nature for its worth.

The webinar is part of a series under the Africa Natural Capital Accounting Community of Practice organized in cooperation between UNSD and the World Bank Global Program on Sustainability, the Gaborone Declaration for Sustainability in Africa, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the United Nation

The Technical Meeting on Valuation and Accounting for the revised SEEA EEA took place on 16 – 18 March 2020 over webex. The meeting provided the opportunity for 25 invited experts to discuss and agree on the key outstanding issues in this research area and clarify preferred treatments. The main objective of the meeting was to advance the research agenda on valuation and accounting in the SEEA EEA revision process and provide input and feedback on draft chapters.

The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the tenth Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (Cartagena Protocol COP/MOP 10) and the fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and B

Article 25 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) establishes an open-ended intergovernmental scientific advisory body known as the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical

“Better Lives 2030: mobilising the power of data for Africa and the world” is Organised by the International Association for Official Statistics, International Statistical Institute and Republic of Zambia Central Statistical Office.

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

France will host the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020  from 3 to 11 September 2021 in Marseille. The event, which originally was planned to be held in June 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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 Global Ocean Accounts Partnership will host the