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CES seminar on Sustainable Development Session II Frameworks and analytical tools 14 June 2005

CES seminar on Sustainable Development Session II Frameworks and analytical tools 14 June 2005 Discussant Jarig van Sinderen Statistics Netherlands. Estonia: Summary Dashboard: online tool designed to make indicator sets better accessible. Dashboard:

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CES seminar on Sustainable Development Session II Frameworks and analytical tools 14 June 2005

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  1. CES seminar on Sustainable Development Session II Frameworks and analytical tools 14 June 2005 Discussant Jarig van Sinderen Statistics Netherlands

  2. Estonia: Summary Dashboard: online tool designed to make indicator sets better accessible • Dashboard: • - visualizes strong and weak points of countries • aggregates various indicators into an overall • performance index • - ranks countries

  3. However: • - its focus on the ranking of individual countries is not • always useful • its weighting scheme is necessarily arbitrary • performance valuation is relative to other countries; a clear benchmark would be of added value Estonia: Comment Dashboard is a useful tool to enhance the communication on information contained in indicator sets

  4. Measurement: • stocks; ecosystems indirectly by state variables, e.g. • quality of air and water • flows; e.g. resource extraction activities and waste • flows • The compilation of natural capital balance sheets and material flow accounts which are integrated into the SNA Canada: Summary Conceptual basis: theory of natural capital (renewable and non-renewable resource stocks, land, ecosystems)

  5. However: currently there is a lack of (consensus regarding) monetary valuation methods for natural capital stocks Therefore Statistics Netherlands uses an accounting framework which extends the SNA with environmental accounts in physical units (NAMEA) Canada: Comment Integrating a SD-framework into the SNA is the best way forward

  6. Questions • Estonia- Is the Dashboard able to consider trade-offs between the three dimensions?- How to deal with the arbitrairy weighting of the separate indicators? • Canada- What are the possibilities for extending the capital approach to include social aspects?- What are the possibilities in the capital approach to aggregate the various types of capital?

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