On 22 July 2020 at 14:30 (CEST), the World Resource Institute (WRI) hosted a webinar on 'Beyond GDP: National Accounting for the Ocean and Ocean Economy'.
This webinar launched the latest Blue Paper commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel), ‘National Accounting for the Ocean and Ocean Economy’. This paper highlights the opportunity for incorporating ocean accounts into national accounting frameworks and the data and technology already available at our fingertips to do so. This webinar will also feature the Global Ocean Accounts Partnership (GOAP), a global partnership designed to advance greater coordination and alignment between country efforts through a shared technical framework for ocean accounting and associated capacity building for countries looking to develop ocean accounts. The webinar discusses the implications of the paper for policy makers and showcase some of the leading examples from countries that are already putting the theory into practice.