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T1 Environmental Accounting: Environmental Economic Accounts and their role in Audits on Biodiversity and other Environmental and Sustainability Topics
T2 Contabilidade Ambiental: As contas econômicas ambientais e seu papel nas auditorias sobre biodiversidade e outros tópicos de meio ambiente e sustentabilidade
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A2 Agra, Raquel
A2 King, Steven
A2 Vause, James
A2 Couto, Matheus
A2 Cassola, Rodrigo
K1 environmental accounting
K1 environmental economics
K1 national account
K1 environmental policy
K1 biological diversity
K1 sustainable development
K1 Latin America and the Caribbean
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/35821
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/35821
NO This report aims to provide background and strengthen auditors' technical capacities, so that environmental accounting is included in audits of administrative actions in the environmental area. The report is aimed at professionals from the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU-Brazil) and from sub-national courts, as well as from other members of the Latin American and Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS). The report discusses the main concepts and methodologies associated with environmental accounting, assesses the progress of the issue in the countries of the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, and presents how environmental accounting can be used in the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of public policies. Case studies of how Environmental Economic Accounts have been developed in practice in Latin America are also presented. This report discusses the uses of the accounts in the context of audits on biodiversity and other environmental and sustainability topics.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026