1. Eurostat – Unit E2 Veronika Vyšná Veronika.vysna@ec.europa.eu
Knowledge Innovation Project on an Integrated System of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services Accounting (KIP INCA)
Eurostat – Unit E2
Veronika Vyšná
Eurostat working group on forestry statistics and accounts
Meeting of 20 – 21 February 2018, Luxembourg
Item 6 of the agenda

2. Ecosystem accounting
In 2012, SEEA Central Framework adopted as an international accounting standard → in 2014, its scope expanded for ecosystems and their services by SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting;
Ecosystem accounting – rapidly developing field with many initiatives at international and national levels (WAVES, TEEB, etc.)
Focuses on individual resources (e.g. water, timber) and the recording of their stocks and flows
Focuses on ecosystems (e.g. forest, wetland) as suppliers of services and their capacity to provide them

3. Components of ecosystem accounting

4. Project KIP INCA
Knowledge Innovation Project on an Integrated System of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services Accounting
Integrates existing georeferenced EU-level data and MS reporting exercises to design a system of natural capital accounting;
Identifies data gaps and needs for adjustment;
Tests and advances international environmental accounting guidelines (SEEA EEA);
KIP-INCA partners: DG ENV, DG RTD, DG JRC, EEA, ESTAT.

5. Summary of KIP INCA work
Public outputs
Ecosystem extent
Ecosystem condition
Outdoor recreation
Water purification
Pollination
2015 – 2017
Carbon sequestration
Habitat maintenance
Provisioning of crops, timber and fish
2018
Erosion control
Flood protection
Air filtration
2019
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6. Which ecosystems are expanding and where do changes take place?
Example I:
Which ecosystems are expanding and where do changes take place?
Ecosystem extent map 2010
Mean change in ecosystem extent per type in 2000 – 2010
Source: EEA and JRC,

7. Mapping of the potential supply of ecosystem services
Example II:
Mapping of the potential supply of ecosystem services
Air filtration by urban trees (NO2 Removal)
Forest growing stocks
Source: JRC,

8. Example III:
Source: UNEP-WCMC,

9. Values of ecosystem services under different scenarios
Example IV:
What are the trade-offs between ecosystem services?
Hotspots of competition among ecosystem services
Values of ecosystem services under different scenarios
Australian National University,

10. Additional support measures to KIP INCA in Member States
Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their services (MAES)
Horizon 2020 topic dedicated to NCA (RTD) – new work programme (2018 – 2020)
ESTAT grants on natural capital accounting for NSIs and ONAs
euro in 2017; 7 MS received funding; call to be repeated in 2018
New ESTAT ESTP course on NCA
June 12 – 14, 2018 in London (deadline for application April 13)

11. Questions for the Working Group
You are welcome to get in touch with your national MAES coordinator to follow/engage in developments in ecosystem accounting in your country
You are welcome to participate in KIP INCA workshops
We invite your NSI to apply for Eurostat grant on ecosystem accounting
We invite you to provide feedback or share your ideas with us & )
Thank you!