System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
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(United Nations).
(SEEA).
A UN-sponsored system to improve the consistency and usefulness of natural capital accounting.
- Consistency and comparability
- "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.
- It contains the internationally agreed standard concepts, definitions, classifications, accounting rules and tables for producing internationally comparable statistics and accounts.
- The SEEA framework follows a similar accounting structure as the System of National Accounts (SNA).
- The framework uses concepts, definitions and classifications consistent with the SNA in order to facilitate the integration of environmental and economic statistics."
UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting.
See also
- Business & Sustainable Development Commission
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Economic and Financial Committee
- Equality and Human Rights Commission
- International Labour Organization
- International Monetary Fund
- System of National Accounts
- UN/EDIFACT
- UNCITRAL
- United Nations
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- World Bank
