Participants of the Partnership on Cooperation on Natural Capital Accounting, Environmental-Economic Accounting, and Related Statistics, issued December 9th, 2023, include Australia, Canada and the United States. To advance international cooperation on aligning environmental and economic data into national environmental-economic statistics, the partnership is convening a Technical Working Group.
The Technical Working Group on Natural Capital Accounting, Environmental-Economic Accounting, and Related Statistics facilitates shared learnings, leverages expertise, solves common challenges, and works towards comparability of approaches on natural capital accounting and environmental-economic statistics.
The Technical Working Group is chaired by representatives of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Office of the Chief Statistician of the United States, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and Statistics Canada. Membership in this working group will be drawn from Federal government agencies that are developing or working on natural capital accounting, environmental-economic accounting or related statistics. The Technical Working Group is expected to convene every six months, virtually or in-person.
The intention is to facilitate a common approach to natural capital accounting, environmental-economic accounting, and environmental-economic statistics in ways that are guided by the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (UN-SEEA) framework.
Communiqués related to the Working Group sessions are available here: