The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is offering a self-paced course titled "SEEA - Experimental Ecosystem Accounting" on the UNSD e-learning platform. The course provides an overview of ecosystem accounting including details on, among others, spatial units, ecosystem services, ecosystem condition and biodiversity accounts.
This course is also available in Spanish.
Background
The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 - Central Framework is a multipurpose conceptual framework for measuring the interactions between the environment and the economy. By providing an internationally agreed standard with agreed concepts, definitions and classifications, the SEEA is an invaluable tool for compiling integrated statistics on the economy and the environment and deriving coherent and comparable indicators to measure progress towards sustainable development.