This report details the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Standard Statistical Classifications for the Environment, including definitions of terms, selected national practices in estimations of air and water emissions, materials balance sheets, and a bibliography of methodological papers.
This paper presents the results of a case study, carried out in 1990 and 1991, with the objective of integrating and linking environmental and economic information and to explore whether environmentally-adjusted national product aggregates for Mexico can be derived. This work was carried out within the overall analytical framework developed in UNSC's Draft Handbook on Environmental Accounting.
This report demonstrates that natural resources can be treated similarly to capital in national accounts, and it argues that these accounts should be revised. Using data from Indonesia, the study provides a concrete example of how the revised accounts would work and what signals the new results would give to those who make decisions about economic development.
This case study, Accounting for National Resources in Ecuador: Contrasting Methodologies, Conflicting Results, published by the World Bank, examines natural capital depletion in Ecuador from 1971 to 1990, corresponding with an oil boom in the 1970s followed by economic stagnation in the 1980s. Two natural resource accounting (NRA) methodologies are utilized to measure the economic value of natural capital depletion in the petroleum sector: the Depreciation Method and the User Cost Method.
This report focuses on ways to use land and ecosystem accounting techniques to describe and monitor the consequences of biodiversity loss in the coastal wetlands of the Mediterranean. These ecosystems are characterized by the close coupling of economic, social, and ecological processes, and any accounting system has to represent how these key elements are linked and change over time. This report discusses the importance of estimating the ecological and social costs of maintaining these systems as well as the problems related to providing monetary estimates of the services associated with wetlands. It also shows how individual wetland socio-ecological systems can be defined and mapped using the remotely sensed land cover information from Corine Land Cover.
This case study, From Digging to Planting: A Sustainable Economic Transition for Berau, East Kalimantan, produced as part of Project LEOPALD or Low Emissions Oil Palm Development examines whether palm oil’s potential as an economic driver will bear out for Indonesia’s goals, using Berau as an example case.
The publication Climate Smart Agriculture: Successes from Africa
This report, Green Growth Potential Assessment: Papua New Guinea country report presents the findings of the Green Growth Potential Assessment (GGPA) of Papua New Guinea and details the recommendations, each supported by a solid rationale and directly support achieving the goals set out in Papua New Guinea’s Vision 2050.
This Study Financing Climate Futures: The role of National Development Banks in Brazil and South Africa presents the key findings on the role of national development banks and financial institutions in the infrastructure financing in developing countries.
This case study, Bridging the Policy and Investment Gap for Payment for Ecosystem Services: Learning from Costa Rican experience and roads ahead , based on an in-depth analysis drawn out of Costa Rican national Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) program, addresses the key enabling conditions for sustainable PES development and provides a step-by-step guide for policymakers wishing to install similar programs (on either a national or sub-national level).