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Technical Report
This is the first water accounts report for Rwanda and covers the period from 2012 to 2015.
Technical Report
This is the second energy accounts report for Botswana and covers the period from April 2015 to...
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Guidelines to assist national statistics officers and others improve the way they account for small...
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Natural Capital Committee: Advice to Government on the 25 Year Environment Plan
This note sets out the Natural Capital Committee's advice and recommendations on what the UK Government should consider when drawing up its 25-Year Environment Plan, building on the Committee’s previous recommendations over the past 5 years.
Ecosystem accounts define explicit and spatial trade-offs for managing natural resources
This paper advances the application of ecosystem accounts in a regional case study by explicitly and spatially linking impacts of human and natural activities on ecosystem assets and services to their associated industries.
Landscapes in transition: An account of 25 years of land cover change in Europe
New data on land cover change in Europe up to 2012 show that total land cover change increased from the 2000‑2006 period to the 2006‑2012 period.
Natural Capital Accounting and Policy: Costa Rica
Costa Rica has prepared three main accounts—for forests, water, and energy—using the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA). Results from the first set of accounts will start to reveal the value of natural capital’s contributions to society. This data will help to define the country’s policies into the future.
Natural Capital Accounting and Policy: The Philippines
The Philippines is producing mineral, mangrove, and ecosystem accounts. The data generated will give a clearer picture of the country’s natural capital resources and provide input for investment and policy decisions.
Natural Capital Accounting and Policy: Colombia
With WAVES support, Colombia has produced water, land, and timber/forest accounts at the national level; ecosystem accounts at the regional level; and land, water, and expenditure accounts at the watershed level. These accounts make it possible to better assess the real value of natural capital to the economy.