1. SEEA: MFA, NAMEA, SERIEE & Ecosystem Accounts
Jean-Louis Weber, 15 April 2008

2. SEEA2003: expansion of the System of National Accounts (UN SNA1993) in order to include more environmental aspects
RM HASSAN - UN The System of Environmental and Economic Accounting (UN 2003) -
RANESA Workshop June 12-16, 2005 Maputo

3. Logic underlying the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment…
Maintenance and restoration costs
Economic and social values (sometimes market values).
Biophysical structure or process
(e.g. woodland habitat or net primary productivity )
Function
(e.g. slow passage of water, or biomass)
Service
(e.g. flood protection, or harvestable products)
Benefit
(e.g. willingness to pay for woodland protection or for more woodland, or harvestable products)
Limit pressures via policy action?
Maintenance, restoration
Σ Pressures
Courtesy Roy Haines-Young

4. Ecosystem approach within the SEEA: 4 questions
is the renewable natural capital maintained over time at the amount and quality expected by the society?
physical measurement of stocks and resilience in reference to stated social norms
is the full cost of maintaining the natural capital covered by the price of goods and services?
measurement of additional costs not currently covered for maintaining and restoring domestic ecosystems potentials (provision for depreciation) and addition to the value of goods and services
is the full cost of ecosystems services covered by import prices?
calculation of the “hidden cost” and addition to value of imported goods and services
Add additional domestic costs (2.) and imported “hidden costs” (3.) to the value of products for calculating the full cost of goods of services and the full cost of the final demand
is the total of goods and services supplied to final uses by the market (and government institutions) as well as for free by ecosystems, developing over time?
 measure and value free end-use services and add these benefits to GDP

5. SEEA Integrating Ecosystems
Physical flows
Monetary flows/valuation
Assets valuation
SEEA Integrating Ecosystems
Natural capital / assets
Rest of the World
Subsoil Assets
[stocks]
Ecosystem Assets
[stocks and resilience]
Subsoil Assets
[stocks]
Material & Energy Flows
Ecosystem Assets
[stocks and resilience]
Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem Services
NAMEA
Additional Ecosystem Maintenance Costs
Environmental Expenditures, Taxes
Additional Ecosystem Costs
in Imports
(less
in Exports)
SNA flows & assets

6. Framework of Ecosystem Accounts
Spatial integration
Economic sectors
Accounts of flows of ecosystem goods and services
Core accounts of assets & flows
(by ecosystem types, raw quantities)
Material/energy flows
(biomass, water, nutrients, residuals)
Ecosystem Services
Marketed Ecosystem Services (€)
Non-market end use ES (physical units, €)
Supply & use of ecosystem goods and services
(Use of resource by sectors, supply to consumption & residuals, accumulation, I-O analysis, NAMEA)
Counts of stocks diversity / integrity
(by ecosystem types, focus on state, health, resilience, stress)
Ecosystem types
Natural capital
Natural capital stocks, resilience & wealth, distance to objective (physical units, by sectors)
Natural capital consumption/maintenance costs (€)
Ecosystem assets inclusive wealth (€)
Ecosystem Stocks & State Accounts
Natural Capital Accounts/ living & cycling natural capital
Economic integration

7. Physical account of the natural capital: ecological potential
Example: Change in Landscape Ecological Potential
1990
Change
2000

8. Ecosystems and services

9. Accounts of value & sustainability of ecosystem services
Capital stocks and functions
Distance to stated targets & additional maintenance/restoration costs
Market values
Services
Physical measurement and shadow prices

10. MFA, NAMEA and Ecosystem Services
MFA  « materials »  « environmental impacts »
NAMEA  « substances »  « environmental themes »

11. Use of ecosystem services by economic activities

12. Supply of ecosystem services, land use and well-being

13. Work sharing for a fast track implementation
UN agencies, WB, IMF, OECD
MA2 context (e.g. WCMC/UNEP: manual on ES currently drafted)
GEO/GEOSS (GMES…) (support regional global monitoring)
International conventions (CBD, IPCC, IGBP, HDP, Ramsar, Desertification… )
Regional regulations, agreements, conventions
Key NGOs in the domain (IUCN, WWF, ISEE)
UNEP-IPES, UNEP-FI
London group/subgroup + Eurostat + EEA & scientific expert panel: issue paper, outline by end 2008
ESEA:
EEA: natural assets (land, stocks, resilience, physical flows), ES non market values and additional maintenance costs
Eurostat: connection of MFA and NAMEA to natural assets, ES/NAMEA, actual protection/restoration expenditures, external trade