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The Natural Capital Accounts (NCA) for Forests covering the period 2016 to 2020
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This report highlights the changes in animal populations, their use, and partial accounts for the...
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The Rapid Environment Economic Assessment (REEA) model can be used to analyse government investment...
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Nature-based Solutions to Enhance Coastal Resilience
The purpose of this policy brief is to provide the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and its audiences with a broad overview of the importance of coastal natural capital for sustainable development. The brief highlights the role of nature-based infrastructure and integrated solutions for building coastal resilience and proposes critical areas of work to effectively address development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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: Botswana
Botswana has prepared water, mineral, and energy accounts and developed macroeconomic indicators for sustainable development.
Natural Capital Accounting and Policy: Indonesia
Natural resources have long played a significant role in Indonesia’s economy. Efforts are ongoing to strengthen the existing environment and economic accounting system and develop more robust indicators to measure sustainability. Careful attention to how natural resources are used, depleted, and replenished is of paramount importance for national planning.
Natural Capital Accounting: Informing Water Policies
Water security is at the core of several national development plans and sustainable development goals (SDGs): access to clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), and as an input to food security (SDG 2) and energy (SDG 7). Increasing demand and competition for water requires better information to direct investments and maximize benefits for all. Natural capital accounting can provide indicators to help policy design, monitoring, and cost-recovery strategies.
System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA)
The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) is a framework that integrates economic and environmental data to provide a more comprehensive and multipurpose view of the interrelationships between the economy and the environment and the stocks and changes in stocks of environmental assets, as they bring benefits to humanity.