**2. SEEA accounts**

"The System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA) is the United Nations statistical framework that provides internationally agreed concepts, definitions, classifications, accounting rules and standard tables for producing internationally comparable statistics on the environment, and its relationship with the economy. The SEEA framework follows a similar accounting structure as the 'System of National Accounts' (SNAs) and uses concepts, definitions, and classifications consistent with the SNA in order to facilitate the integration of environmental and economic statistics."2 The international community agreed to elevate the SEEA-2003 from a manual of best practices to an international statistical standard on par with the System of National Accounts. For attaining this objective, an iterative revision process was initiated by the United Nations Statistical Committee, relying on a broad global experts' consultation. The revised SEEA is organized into three main parts: the Central Framework, Experimental

<sup>1</sup> See https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/ [Accessed: June 2018]. 2 See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/seea.asp [Accessed: June 2018].

Ecosystem Accounts, and Extensions and Applications. The Central Framework, consisting of the internationally agreed standard concepts, definitions, classifications, tables, and accounts was completed in 2013.
