Terms of reference of the Committee of Experts on Environmental Economic Accounting

Creation of a United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental Economic Accounting

Also constituted as Election Tribunal and Ehtesab (Accountability) Bench of the High Court.

(d) Noted the complementarities of the Committee on Environmental Economic Accounting and the Intersecretariat Working Group on Environment Statistics

The Commission may wish to express its views on the role and future work of the Committee of Experts on Environmental Economic Accounting.

The Committee of Experts on Environmental Economic Accounting was established by the Statistical Commission at its thirty sixth session, in March 2005.

(a) Endorsed the creation of a Committee on Environmental Economic Accounting and noted that the Committee should be regarded as having a programme of work with a long term perspective

To fulfil its responsibility, the Organization maintains systems of internal accounting controls, policies and procedures to ensure the reliability of financial information and the safeguarding of assets.

These topics pertained to environmental accounting, the ISAR Model Curriculum and the accounting and financial reporting needs of small and medium sized enterprises.

The system application also provides links to accounting, custodial and virtual matching utilities to streamline downstream trade processing.

The United Nations Statistics Division organized a preliminary meeting of the Committee of Experts on Environmental Economic Accounting in New York from 29 to 31 August 2005.

At the same time, as an essential part of developing a results orientated organizational culture, the Fund will need to improve and enhance its financial accounting function.

To that end, the Committee should promote compilation, harmonization and dissemination practices for environmental economic accounting and related statistics in order to meet user needs.

In its activities, the Committee would seek support of existing groups (the London Group on Environmental Accounting, the Intersecretariat Working Group on Environment Statistics, the Oslo Group on Energy Statistics and the Intersecretariat Working Group on Energy Statistics etc.).

(c) Expressed its appreciation for the good work being carried out by the London Group on Environmental Accounting and reconfirmed its role as an expert body in charge of methodological issues, which would support the work of the Committee

(b) Encourage the use of environmental economic accounting in countries in support of decision making through technical recommendations on the compilation, harmonization and dissemination of the accounts, linking the accounts to indicators and developing a closer relationship between the users and producers of environmental economic accounts and related statistics