1. Progress report on the Global Assessment and future activities
Second Meeting of the United Nations Committee of Experts on
Environmental-Economic Accounting
(New York, 5-6 July 2007)

2. Background Phase 1: completed (results reported to UNSC) It covered
Institutional infrastructure
Subject areas
Constraints in implementation
Future plans

3. Phase 2: ongoing
Follow-up questionnaires focusing on specific subject areas
Objectives:
Identify role of NSOs in the national statistical system in collecting, compiling and disseminating statistics and accounts;
Assess scope of statistics and accounts in NSOs by identifying their coverage, data collection practices and use;
Assess use of international standards, recommendations, guidelines and classifications;
Assess impeding factors in the collection, compilation and dissemination of statistics and accounts

4. Energy statistics and balances UNSD in cooperation with the Oslo Group
Modules of Phase 2
Responsible agency
Time frame
Energy statistics and balances
UNSD in cooperation with the Oslo Group
Dispatched June 2007
Analysis Fall 2007
Report to UNSC 2008
Energy and emission accounts
UNSD
July 2007
Water statistics and accounts
September 2007
Analysis Winter 2007
EPEA
2008
Fisheries statistics and accounts
Forest statistics and accounts
MFA, Waste statistics and accounts
Land and ecosystem accounts
Physical supply and use tables
Transport statistics
Biodiversity statistics
Agriculture statistics

5. Questions to the UNCEEA
1) Does the UNCEEA agree with the proposed breakdown of modules in Phase 2?
2) Does the UNCEEA agree with the proposed timeframe?