Download Mr. Ivo Havinga

The System of Environmental-Economic
Accounting (SEEA) –
The measurement and monitoring
framework for the environment-economy
relationship for official statistics
Ivo Havinga
United Nations Statistics Division
Interactive Dialogue of the General Assembly on
Harmony with Nature, United Nations
20 April 2011
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Outline of presentation
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Brief history
Why do we need the SEEA?
What is the SEEA?
How do we draft and release the SEEA?
– process and timetable
5. Summary
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Brief history
Policy
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Brundtland (WCED) – 1983
Agenda 21 – 1992
SIDS – 1994 & 2005
MDGs – 2000
Johannesburg – 2002
– Marrakech process
• Rio +20
Statistics
• Indicator sets (DPSIR,
FDES) - 70s onwards
• SEEA-1993 – Interim report
• SEEA-2003 – Best
practices
• SEEA-Water - 2007
Statistical standard (interim)
• SEEA 2012 Statistical
standard
• SEEA-Energy 2012
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Why do we need SEEA?
• International agreed framework for official
statistics for the measurement of the
economic impacts on the environment and
the environmental impacts on the economy
• International agreed organisation of
economic, financial and natural assets
(wealth) and flows of production/income,
consumption and accumulation between the
environmental and the economy
• International comparability of environmental
and related socio-economic data –
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information pyramid
The information pyramid
Indicators
Accounts
SEEA
Basic data
Econ. Stats|Env. Stats
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Environmental-Economic Accounting and
Environment Statistics
Environment statistics and
indicators:
Often developed to
answer one particular
question or problem
Difficult to figure out if
all information is
included
Not always easy to see
the whole picture, or
how it relates to other
things
Source: Julie Hass
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Environmental-Economic Accounting and
Environment Statistics
Environmental accounts:
• Help to make sense of
the larger picture
• Help to identify pieces
that are missing
• Can make connections
to other economic and
social statistics
Source: Julie Hass
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What is SEEA?
• Builds on the System of National Accounts (GDP,
saving, lending/borrowing, etc)
• Extends environmental (natural) asset boundary,
use now and by future generation (land
cover(mountains, low and highlands, coastal areas),
water, energy and minerals, forest, fish, etc.
• Includes physical valuations of environmental assets
and flows (water, energy and minerals, forest, fish,
etc.)
• Links monetary (market valued) and physical
information
• Provides environmentally-adjusted aggregated for
depleting environmental (natural) assets (for GDP, 8
saving, etc.)
The SEEA Framework
Territory of reference
Economy
Actors
-Enterprises
-Households
-Government
-Non-profit institutions
Activities
-Production
-Consumption
-Accumulation
Instruments
-Financial/Monetary
-Taxes/subsidies
-Financing
-Resource rent
-Permits
Analytical and Policy
Frameworks
Outside
territory of
reference
Land/
Resource use/
Ecosystems
-Productivity analysis
-Natural resource management
-Climate change
-Green Growth/Green Economy
Emissions/
waste
Outside
territory of
reference
Environment
Natural Resources (stocks)
-Land
-Water
-Ecosystems
-Soil
-Etc.
Natural Resource flows
-Materials
-Energy
-Water
-Ecosystem services
-Etc.
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Categories of environment
indicators
• Selected Indicators of
– Efficiency of sustainable production
• Decoupling (material use, emissions)
• Multi factor productivity
SCP
– Efficiency of sustainable consumption
• Embedded emissions
• Footprint indicators
– Environmental assets
• Stocks and changes in stocks of land, natural resources and
ecosystems
– Fiscal/monetary instruments (response of society)
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Taxes/subsidies
Permits
Rent
Environmental Goods and Services Sector (GDP and employment)
Environmental protection and resource management expenditures
Recurrent and capital cost and their financing
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SEEA and suite of publications
Frameworks, international recommendations (IR), compilation guidelines, data,
quality assessments, knowledge bases
SEEA
SEEA
Water
SEEAEnergy
IRWS
IRES
IRWaste
Compilation
guidelines
Compilation
guidelines
Compilation
guidelines
Data
SEEA-MFA
Data
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Data
Data quality assessment
Best practices/knowledge base
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Example: Apppication of SEEA
for water sector
Improving drinking
water and
sanitation services
Balancing
water
supply and
demand
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Mitigating water
resources
degradation/
Improving
quality of
water resources
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Water security
for
development
Adapting
to extreme
hydrometeorological
events
IV
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How do we draft and release
SEEA? – process and time table
– Global consultation with countries and agencies on
Chapters of SEEA – ongoing 2011 and 2012
– Internationally agreed central framework of SEEA
for adoption by United Nations Statistical
Commission – Part 1 – February 2012
– Ecosystem accounting for consideration by United
Nations Statistical Commission – Part 2 – February
2013
– Policy applications for consideration by United
Nations Statistical Commission - Part 3 – February
2013
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Summary
• Developing SEEA as an international conceptual
standard will be a critical milestone in
mainstreaming accounting for the environment
• Affirming the SEEA as the measurement and
monitoring framework for sustainable
development/green economy by official
statistical community
• Outreach and integrating policy and analytical
framework with measurement framework
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Thank You !
For further information and comments:
United Nations Statistics Division
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Ivo Havinga, email: [email protected]
Alessandra Alfieri, email: [email protected]
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