Overview on SEEA Central Framework

It is a conceptual framework for understanding the interactions between the economy and the environment, and for describing stocks and changes of environmental assets.

• SEEA 2012 Central Framework

• SEEA Ecosystem Accounting

• System of National Accounts

SEEA provide information that is NOT coherent and does not identify data that are missing

• True

• False

In ____, the SEEA Central Framework was adopted as the international statistical standard by UNSC (UN, EU, FAO, IMF, OECD and WB)

• 2007

• 2003

• 2012

• 2010

SEEA has been recognized as a useful framework for measuring environment related SDGs. Furthermore, SDG ______ is defined in terms of implementation of the SEEA itself.

• 15.9.3

• 15.9.4

• 15.9.2

• 15.9.1

Integrating information about agriculture, forestry and fisheries facilitates understanding of the trade-offs and dependencies between these activities and their related environmental factors.

• SEEA Energy Accounts

• SEEA Agriculture, Forests, and Fisheries Accounts

• SEEA Water Accounts

The ________ accounts record the generation of air emissions by resident economic units according to type of gaseous or particulate substance.

• Water emission

• Air emission

• Solid waste

The _______ supports ‘thematic accounting’, which organizes data around specific policy-relevant environment themes, such as biodiversity, climate change, oceans and urban areas. Other important thematic accounts would include accounting for protected areas, wetlands and forests.

• SEEA 2012 Central Framework

• System of National Accounts

• SEEA Ecosystem Accounting

____ record both the opening and closing stock of assets and the changes over the accounting period

• Flow Accounts

• Activity/purpose account

• Asset Accounts

___________ explicitly identify environmental transactions already existing in the SNA (e.g., Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts (EPEA), environmental taxes and subsidies).

• Asset accounts

• Flow Accounts

• Activity/Purpose accounts

___________ are supply and use tables for products, natural inputs and residuals generated by economic activities; either physical (e.g. m³ of wastewater) and/or monetary values (e.g. cost of wastewater treatment).

• Asset accounts

• Flow Accounts

• Activity/Purpose accounts