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)

 

December 17, 2014

Natural Capital Accounting: Applications and a Potential Regional Community of Practice

08:30-09:00

Welcome and Opening

Edgar Gutiérrez, Minister of the Environment, Costa Rica

 

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

 

09:45-10:00

The WAVES program in Latin America

Juan Pablo Castañeda, WAVES Secretariat, World Bank

 

10:00-10:30

The use of NCA in Costa Rica

Luis Rivera, Technical Coordinator WAVES Costa Rica, BCCR

 

10:30-10:45

Coffee

 

10:45-12:30

Completing the map: Developing NCA in Latin America

ECLACMarco José Melo Neves, Brazil; Luis Rivera, Costa RicaRenato Vargas, GuatemalaRaúl Figueroa Díaz, MéxicoAraceli Urriola Manrique, PeruMariela Buonomo, Uruguay

 

12:30-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-13:50

International Organizations, NCA, and WAVES

Bo Stearman, WAVES Secretariat, World Bank

 

13:50-14:10

NCA and the private sector

Juan Pablo Castañeda, WAVES Secretariat, World Bank

 

14:10-14:45

NCA and World Bank operations (in English)

Carter Brandon, Lead Economist, World Bank

 

14:45-15:00

Coffee

 

15:00-15:45

Proposal for developing a Community of Practice in Latin America

Carter Brandon, Lead Economist, World Bank and Claudia Hernández, WAVES

 

15:45-16:30

Session to discuss the proposal and next steps

 

16:30-17:30

Review of the previous session, questions, and close of the day

 

 

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

 

09:00-09:30

Framework for monitoring water policies and the System of Environmental and Economic UN Water (SEEA -Water) Accounts

 

09:30-10:30

Water Accounts and applications

Pedro Pineda, GuatemalaJorge Gómez Lechaptois, ChileHenry Alterio, ColombiaLucrecia Salazar-Villalobos, Costa RicaJosé Antonio Sena do Nascimento, BrazilMarco José Melo Neves, Brazil

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee

 

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.

 

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:30

The hydrological cycle as expressed in SEEA-Water. Unu – water accounting exercise

 

15:30-16:00

 

Coffee

 

16:00-17:00

Panel and presentation of the results of exercise

Questions to discuss the challenges and linking to real life

 

 

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

 

09:00-09:15

Recap of the previous day

 

09:15-10:30

Monetary accounts for the case of water and wastewater. Example with Unu -Water exercise

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee

 

11:00-12:30

Some indicators derived from the water accounts. Unu - water accounting exercise

 

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:45

Using the accounting tables to build future scenarios. Sugarland exercise.    

 

15:45-16:15

Coffee

 

16:15-17:15

Panel discussion on next steps

 

17:15-17:30

Closing of the workshop

Costa Rican government representatives

 

Date:
2014
Publisher:
WAVES
Author(s):
WAVES
Tipo de publicación:
Workshop and Consultation
Idioma:
Spanish
Topic:
Natural Capital Accounting - General, Water