The Global Assessment of Environment Statistics and Environmental-Economic Accounting has been prepared by the United Nations Statistics Division in collaboration with the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Environment Statistics (IWG-ENV) under the auspices of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA).

To assess the current status of national implementation of Environment Statistics and Environmental-Economic Accounting Progammes;

To identify priorities and future plans in these programmes; and

To assess the compliance of countries’ implementation of environmental-economic accounting with the Handbook on National Accounts: Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting-2003 (SEEA-2003) in view of the Statistical Commission recommendation of elevating the SEEA-2003 to the level of a statistical standard by 2010.

The Global Assessment of Environment Statistics and Environmental-Economic Accounting (Phase 1) has been completed. A summary of the results of the assessment has been presented to the 38^th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in the report of UNCEEA and a detailed analysis has been presented in a background document.

National Statistical Offices who have not yet replied to the Global Assessment – Phase 1 are still encouraged to do so. This would allow updating the analysis and better targeting the second Phase of the Assessment.