Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m. New York time.
This webinar, co-hosted by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, brings together world-renowned experts to discuss how natural capital accounting can help address climate change, biodiversity loss, and air pollution (responsible for more than seven million deaths per year).
Panelists will discuss the economic case for placing nature at the heart of the post-COVID-19 recovery, highlighting a global effort led by the United Nations to develop new statistics that reveal, rather than hide, the impacts and dependencies of economies on nature. The resulting System of Environmental Economic Accounts – Ecosystem Accounting is expected to be adopted by the UN Statistical Commission in 2021, providing rigorous, high-quality data on biodiversity, ecosystems, and the link between the environment and the economy.
Confirmed speakers include
- Norbert Barthle, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
- Professor Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director, Bennett Institute of Public Policy, University of Cambridge
- Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Cambridge
Elliott Harris, Chief Economist of the United Nations and Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Bert Kroese, Deputy Director General of Statistics Netherlands and Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on Economic and Environmental Accounting
The resulting System of Environmental Economic Accounts – Ecosystem Accounting is expected to be adopted by the UN Statistical Commission in 2021, providing rigorous and high quality data on biodiversity, ecosystems and the link between the environment and the economy.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Norbert Barthle, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
- Professor Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director, Bennett Institute of Public Policy, University of Cambridge
- Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Cambridge
- Elliott Harris, Chief Economist of the United Nations and Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Bert Kroese, Deputy Director General of Statistics Netherlands and Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on Economic and Environmental Accounting
The event will be opened by Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the UN DESA Statistics Division, and moderated by Monica Contestabile, Editor-in-Chief of Nature Sustainability.
Participants will get a first look at a series of landmark reports that will be launched during the webinar and in the weeks that follow. These reports include
- How Natural Capital Accounting Contributes to Integrated Policies for Sustainability and Related Reports (United Nations, 2020)
- Building Forward: Investments in a Resilient Recovery (Agarwala, et al 2020)
- The Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity (HM Treasury, 2020)
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