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UN Committee of Experts on Environmental - Economic Accounting
The UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) was established by the UN Statistical Commission at its 36th session in March 2005. As outlined in the Term of Reference, the UNCEEA has the following three broad objectives:
- to mainstream environmental-economic accounting and related statistics
- to elevate the System of integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) to an international statistical standard
- to advance the implementation of the SEEA in countries.
To achieve these objectives, the UNCEEA programme of work will focus on the following elements:
- Coordination through fostering coordination, integration and complementarity of programmes in environment-economic accounting and related statistics among international agencies and countries
- Promotion and implementation through advancing the SEEA implementation in countries and encouraging its use in support to decision making
- Furthering methodologies through coordinating the update of the SEEA-2003 by identifying, and prioritising issues that need to be addressed, establishing appropriate mechanisms to address those issues, monitoring progress made, reviewing proposed solution and submitting recommendations to the United Nations Statistical Commission for approval
- Harmonization of data collection activities of environment and related statistics with concepts and definitions of environmental-economic accounting including the assurance of data quality.
The organization of work, composition and modus of operandi of the UNCEEA are outlined in the Operational Guidelines.
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