Monetary environmental accounts – Part I (webinars) - 2024

1. Junior statisticians of environmental statistics or environmental accounts departments involved in compiling data on Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS) Accounts, Environmental protection expenditure accounts (EPEA), environmental taxes or environmental subsidies and other transfers.
2. Specialists in one of the areas listed above who need to improve their knowledge of the other areas listed above.
3. Managers with responsibility on several or all the areas listed above.

• Sound command of English. Participants should be able to make short interventions and to actively participate in discussions
• Responsibilities include environmental statistics and/or accounts

Webinar 1: Session overview and common methodology (90 minutes)

• Brief introduction to SEEA CF and monetary environmental accounts
• Policy needs and applications of environmental accounts, headline indicators
• Introduction to the reporting framework and priorities: Regulation 691/2011, Voluntary data reporting, the European Strategy for Environmental Accounts and eDAMIS and SDMX reporting
• Overview of the existing monetary environmental accounts in the EU by module.
• Quality assurance and reporting
• Eurostat’s data validation

Webinar 2: Session overview and common methodology (90 minutes)

• Key national accounts concepts and definitions and accounting rules relevant for monetary environmental accounts
• Relevant standard statistical classifications
• Generic definition of environmental activities and their classification(s)
• Environmental products and environmental producers – definitions and typology

Webinar 3: Introduction to EPEA and EGSS and work towards an integrated framework for monetary environmental accounts (90 minutes)

• EPEA and EGSS accounts : Purpose and scope, Basic definitions and aggregates, Reporting frameworks, Key common points and differences
• Possible integrated data compilation and work towards an integrated framework
• Key indicators, links to other environmental accounting modules
• Country examples

• Webinar: presentations, Q&A, interactive quizzes

• Regulation 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts and Regulation 538/2014

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:192:0001:0016:EN:PDF

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32014R0538&from=EN

• SEEA-CF Chapter IV

https://unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/seeaRev/SEEA_CF_Final_en.pdf

• Relevant Eurostat questionnaires

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/environment/methodology

• For the integrated framework, reference documents are:

https://seea.un.org/sites/seea.un.org/files/briefing_note_for_unceea_-_integrated_framework_sv_002.pdf

and

https://seea.un.org/sites/seea.un.org/files/seea_paper_integrated_framework_estat_v5.pdf

• Draft UNSD technical notes on EGSS and EPEA:

https://seea.un.org/sites/seea.un.org/files/seea_technical_note_-_egss_july_8_2016_draft.pdf

 https://seea.un.org/sites/seea.un.org/files/seea_techncial_note_-_epea_jan_2017_draft.pdf

• Relevant Eurostat compilation manuals

EPEA: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-GQ-17-004

EGSS: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-GQ-16-008

Environmental subsidies and transfers: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-GQ-15-005-EN-N

Environmental taxes: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-GQ-13-005

Sjoerd SCHENAU (Statistics Netherlands)

Niels SCHOENAKER (Statistics Netherlands)

Jocelyn van BERKEL (Statistics Netherlands)