This report examines the potential policy uses of the different varieties of resource and environmental accounts, particularly greener national accounting aggregates such as genuine savings and 'Eco-Domestic Product'. In addition to providing some background on National Accounting and the System of integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA), it details concrete policy uses of resource and environmental accounts and reports on experiences published on this type of accounting in Costa Rica, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and the United States.
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This paper introduces Japan’s initiative of valuing ecosystem services and incorporates it into the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA). Specifically, it evaluates ecological stocks (i.e. forest and wetland) and ecosystem services from them based on economic valuations and develops an accounting system to record these values.
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