Regional Workshop on Natural Capital Accounting for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with an Emphasis on Water Accounts
Radisson Hotel Costa Rica, Called Central y Tercera Av.15, Calle Blancos, San José, Costa Rica, December 17-19, 2014
The Regional Workshop on NCA with an Emphasis on Water Accounts has two objectives. The first is to bring together professionals working in the area of NCA in Latin America to take stock of efforts in this field and to discuss ways to organize for better learning and expand on existing efforts. The second objective is to examine the water accounts in detail. The second and third day of the workshop will focus on both the technical aspects of accounting of water and how water accounts can help define development policy in the region. Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Brazil have experience in developing water accounts and the workshop will build on this experience to create an opportunity for exchange and South -South learning.
Read the feature article on the workshop: Nine Latin American Countries Come Together for a Regional Workshop on NCA
Agenda and Presentations (presentations in Spanish unless noted)
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December 17, 2014 Natural Capital Accounting: Applications and a Potential Regional Community of Practice |
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08:30-09:00 |
Welcome and Opening Edgar Gutiérrez, Minister of the Environment, Costa Rica
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09:00-09:45 |
Environmental sustainability of the economies of Latin America: Indicators of wealth and sustainability (in English) Carter Brandon, Lead Economist, World Bank
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09:45-10:00 |
The WAVES program in Latin America Juan Pablo Castañeda, WAVES Secretariat, World Bank
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10:00-10:30 |
Luis Rivera, Technical Coordinator WAVES Costa Rica, BCCR
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10:30-10:45 |
Coffee
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10:45-12:30 |
Completing the map: Developing NCA in Latin America ECLAC; Marco José Melo Neves, Brazil; Luis Rivera, Costa Rica; Renato Vargas, Guatemala; Raúl Figueroa Díaz, México; Araceli Urriola Manrique, Peru; Mariela Buonomo, Uruguay
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12:30-13:30 |
Lunch
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13:30-13:50 |
International Organizations, NCA, and WAVES Bo Stearman, WAVES Secretariat, World Bank
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13:50-14:10 |
Juan Pablo Castañeda, WAVES Secretariat, World Bank
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14:10-14:45 |
NCA and World Bank operations (in English) Carter Brandon, Lead Economist, World Bank
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14:45-15:00 |
Coffee
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15:00-15:45 |
Proposal for developing a Community of Practice in Latin America Carter Brandon, Lead Economist, World Bank and Claudia Hernández, WAVES
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15:45-16:30 |
Session to discuss the proposal and next steps
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16:30-17:30 |
Review of the previous session, questions, and close of the day
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December 18, 2014 From theory to practice in the construction of water accounts (Part 1) The entire day will be facilitated by Ricardo Martínez - Lagunes
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09:00-09:30 |
Framework for monitoring water policies and the System of Environmental and Economic UN Water (SEEA -Water) Accounts
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09:30-10:30 |
Water Accounts and applications Pedro Pineda, Guatemala; Jorge Gómez Lechaptois, Chile; Henry Alterio, Colombia; Lucrecia Salazar-Villalobos, Costa Rica; José Antonio Sena do Nascimento, Brazil; Marco José Melo Neves, Brazil
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee
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11:00-12:30 |
Introduction to water accounting Basic accounting tables: supply and use, assets, emissions and sequence of accounts. The physical accounts and monetary accounts. Unu - water accounting exercise.
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch
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14:00-15:30 |
The hydrological cycle as expressed in SEEA-Water. Unu – water accounting exercise
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15:30-16:00
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Coffee
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16:00-17:00 |
Panel and presentation of the results of exercise Questions to discuss the challenges and linking to real life
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December 19, 2014 From theory to practice in the construction of water accounts (Part 2) The entire day will be facilitated by Ricardo Martínez - Lagunes
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09:00-09:15 |
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09:15-10:30 |
Monetary accounts for the case of water and wastewater. Example with Unu -Water exercise
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee
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11:00-12:30 |
Some indicators derived from the water accounts. Unu - water accounting exercise
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch
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14:00-15:45 |
Using the accounting tables to build future scenarios. Sugarland exercise.
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15:45-16:15 |
Coffee
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16:15-17:15 |
Panel discussion on next steps
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17:15-17:30 |
Closing of the workshop Costa Rican government representatives
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