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Submission deadline: 31 January 2026
Today, more than ever, we recognize the importance of having policy-relevant, climate change and ecosystem services data that is integrated with economic data and can support economic and environmental policy as well as stimulate private finance. Implementing, and mainstreaming, such a policy-relevant data infrastructure will play a key as the accelerator for redesigning macro-economic policy, including exploring the role of carbon tax on fiscal policy and price stabilization. In addition, this policy-relevant Environmental-Economic data infrastructure will stimulate innovative corporate finance solutions. Ultimately, also contributes to bridging the over 5 USD trillion financial flows gap for restoration, biodiversity and climate finance future requirements to meet 2030 goals.
The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) is the sole framework that is recognized as the international statistical standard by the United Nations Statistical Commission, and its Member States, to bring together economic and environmental information and to produce internationally comparable statistics and therefore have a unique position in this landscape, i.e., in producing policy-relevant data infrastructure. It is a multi-purpose statistical framework allowing for informing complex policy questions on the interface between the economy and the environment in a coherent and internationally comparable manner.
Guest editors:
Prof. Dr. Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya
paulo.augusto.lourenco.nunes@gmail.com
Dr. Sjoerd Johannes Schenau
Statistics Netherlands, The Hague, The Netherlands
s.schenau@cbs.nl
Mr. Michael Nagy
UNECE, Geneva, Switzerland
Michael.nagy@un.org
Prof. Dr. Andrew Seidl
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; UNDP-BIOFIN, Istanbul, Turkey
Andrew.seidl@colostate.edu
Manuscript submission information:
Submission deadline: January 31, 2026
You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Managing Guest Editor: Dr. Evangelia (Valia) Drakou.
The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript and select the article type of “VSI: SEEA Statistics for Finance” when submitting your manuscript online.
Keywords:
SEEA, Statistics, Investment; data infrastructure; Natural capital; finance; Sustainable development; accelerators
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