Financial production, flows and stocks in the System of National Accounts

Vejledning om beregning og fordeling af produktion vedr. forskellige typer af finansielle tjenesteydelser, finansielle poster og balance efter institutionel sektor.

Ecosystem accounting is a coherent and integrated approach to the assessment of the environment through the measurement of ecosystems, and measurement of the flows of services from ecosystems into economic and other human activity. The scale on which the accounting may be conducted varies: the ecosystems measured may range from specific land cover type areas, such as forests, to larger integrated areas, such as river basins, and may include areas considered to be relatively natural and those that are heavily affected by human activity, such as agricultural areas. The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012—Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting) constitutes an integrated statistical framework for organizing biophysical data, measuring ecosystem services, tracking changes in ecosystem assets and linking this information to economic and other human activity.

This publication is a statistical framework that provides a comprehensive, consistent, comparable and flexible set of environmental-economic accounts for policymaking, analysis and research purposes. Agenda 21 adopted at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development, in Rio de Janeiro, called for the establishment of a “programme to develop national systems of integrated environmental and economic accounting in all countries”. More recently, the outcome document of the Rio+20 Conference reconfirmed that “integrated social, economic, and environmental data and information...is important to decision-making processes.” In response to the continued need for environmental and environmental-economic information, the UN Statistical Commission established the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting with the mandate to revise the System. Reflects a synthesis of the current knowledge in the area and provides a starting point for the development of ecosystem accounting at national and sub-national levels. It represents a strong and clear convergence across the disciplines of ecology, economics and statistics on many core aspects related to the measurement of ecosystems.