Agenda for the Training on the 2012 System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) and its linkages to the 2008 System of National Accounts (SNA)

The Philippines

 

    SNA/SEEA Training Program
    September 1-5, 2014
         
Day Time Allotment Activity
DAY 1        
  08:30 - 09:00 Registration of participants
  09:00 - 09:30 Opening ceremony
    Philippine national anthem
    Invocation
    Welcome remarks
    Message  
  Introduction of participants
  09:30 - 09:45 Objectives/ Expected output
  09:45 - 10:00 WAVES project  
  10:00 - 10:15 -Break-    
    Introduction to 2008 SNA framework and basic concepts including supply use tables (SUT's) in the SNA 
  10:15 - 12:00   2008 SNA framework and basic concepts
  12:00 - 01:30 -Lunch-    
  01:30 - 02:30   SNA supply use tables: Exercise (definitions, supply proforma, use proforma)
  2:30 - 3:00   Open forum 
  03:00 - 04:00   Satellite accounts – Environment
  04:00 - 04:30 Open forum
DAY 2        
    Introduction to 2012 SEEA 
  09:00 - 10:00   Overview of the SEEA central framework
      Key features of the SEEA central framework
  10:00 -10:15   Break  
  10:15 -11:00   Main accounts and tables of the SEEA central
      Framework (including SUT in SEEA)
  11:00 - 11:30   Open forum 
  11:30 - 12:30   Environmental accounts: the Australian experience
         
  12:30 - 01:30 -Lunch-    
  01:30 - 02:00   Philippine experience in environmental accounting
  2;00 - 3:00   Supply and Use in SEEA - water account example
         
  03:00 - 03:45  

Exercises on SUT in SEEA

"Making every drop count" exercise and answers

  3:45 - 4:30   Presentation and discussion of exercises
         
DAY 3        
    Physical flow accounts and monetary accounts
  09:00 - 10:00   Physical flow accounting framework
      Definition and classification
    Principles of physical flow accounting
  !0:00 - 10:15   Break  
  10:15 - 12:30   Basic concepts on monetary accounts
      Accounting rules
  12:30 -1:30 Lunch    
  1:30 - 2:00   Open forum
  2:0 - 2:20     Philippine experiences in mining
  2:20 - 2:40     Philippine experiences in cement manufacturing
  2:40 - 3:25     Exercise on physical flow accounts
  3:25 - 4:30     Presentation of exercise
         
DAY 4        
  09:00 - 9:45 Environmental activity accounts and related flows
    Scope and definitions
      Accounts and statistics (EGSS, EPE)
      Accounting for other transactions related to the environment
  9:45 - 10:15 Open forum  
  10:15 - 11:00   Exercises on EGSS and EPE
  11:00 12:00   Presentation and discussion of exercise
  12:00 - 1:00 Lunch    
  1:00 - 2:00 Asset accounting   
      Introduction
      Structure of asset accounts
        All seven assets (mineral and energy, land, soil, timber resources, aquatic resources, other biological resources, water) 
      Measurement and valuation of natural assets
  2:00 -3:00   Mineral asset accounting in Australia
    Land resource accounting in Australia
  3:00 - 3:45   Exercise on asset accounting ( land, forest/timber or minerals)
  3:45 - 4:15   Presentation and discussion of exercise
  4:15 - 5:15 Estimation of depletion and degradation
  5:15 - 5:35   Forest/ Timber resource in the Philippines
DAY 5        
  9:00 10:00

Environmentally Adjusted GDP

Use of environmental account and macro-economic indicators

  10:00 11:00 Policy Applications of Environmental Accounts
    Use of environmental indicators
  1100 - 12:00 Building a national environmental information system