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• Background •

Environmental accounting has become at the forefront of international debates in recent years.  The discussion of environmentally sound economic development was stimulated in particular by the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, commonly referred to as the Brundtland Report in 1987, and later by the Agenda 21, the report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. 

As a result, international organizations set out to develop methodologies for assessment and implementation of the new concept of sustainable development.  One of those efforts was towards integrating the economy and the environment in a common framework.  It is in this view that the Philippines hosted the International Workshop on Environmental and Economic Accounting which provided a forum to share experiences among the ASEAN countries and other Asia-Pacific countries.  

The workshop was a joint undertaking of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

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