The Global Program on Sustainability (GPS) Seminar Series shares the latest knowledge on how policy makers and the financial sector can integrate environmental sustainability considerations into decision making. Knowledge sharing and learning are central to GPS' goals, and these virtual sessions present an opportunity to highlight real-life case-studies, ongoing work and lessons learned from countries that are beginning to look beyond GDP and traditional financial metrics to account for environmental risks and opportunities.
Events
GPS Seminar Series
January 01-December 30, 2025
Online
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For almost 20 years, the Changing Wealth of Nations (CWON) series has been pushing the frontier of knowledge to track the sustainability of economic progress and measure comprehensive wealth across the globe. The World Bank recently launched the latest edition of the series, The Changing Wealth of Nations 2024 - Revisiting the Measurement of Comprehensive Wealth, incorporating improvements to the methodology and expanding the asset base to measure wealth for 151 countries.
Global forest ecosystem services were included for the first time in the 2018 edition of the report, and the following editions have continued to expand the time series and improved the methodologies. The 2024 edition implements a meta-analytic predictive model using regression and machine learning techniques to spatially estimate the value of water regulation, non-wood forest products, recreation, hunting and fishing services. Moreover, biophysical estimates of the global carbon stocks in forest ecosystems have been produced, with accompanying remote sensing datasets which are available to users.
This virtual event will discuss the methods used in CWON 2024 to estimate forest ecosystem services and key results found in the technical reports:
- Global Assessment of the Economic Value of Non-Wood Forest Ecosystem Services
- Global Estimates of Carbon Stocks in the Vegetation and Soils of Terrestrial Ecosystems
More from CWON
- The Changing Wealth of Nations : CWON as a Reflection Point - Overview 2024
- Executive Summary
- Full report The Changing Wealth of Nations : Revisiting the Measurement of Comprehensive Wealth
SPEAKERS
- Moderator - Matias Piaggio, Senior Economist, World Bank
- Opening remarks – Siet Meijer, Senior Environmental Specialist, PROGREEN Trust Fund Manager
- Global forest ecosystem services metanalysis - Juha Siikämaki, International Union for Conservation of Nature - IUCN
- Global carbon stocks in vegetation and soils – Alessio Bulckaen, Natural Capital Accounting Officer, Basque Centre for Climate Change
- Discussion on uses of data, results and extensions
- Ngao Mubanga, Economist, World Bank
- Bram Edens, Senior national accountant, OECD
- Jihae Kwon, Environmental Economist, World Bank
- Open discussion and Q&A
Last Updated: Apr 29, 2025
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January 22, 2025
Driving the Circular Economy in Türkiye: Economic and trade aspects of the circular economy transition in Türkiye
November 14, 2024
Mangrove Ecosystems in the Changing Wealth of Nations 2024
November 5, 2024
Integrating natural capital to inform policies and programs for low-carbon and climate-resilient development for Nigeria
Description and Speakers | Seminar Recording
October 16, 2024
The Changing Wealth of Nations 2024
June 25, 2024
The role of data and statistics in addressing Bangladesh’s environmental challenges
Description and Speakers | Seminar Recording
May 30, 2024
Using Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) and the Investment Prioritization Tool (IPT) for designing landscape programs in Ethiopia
Description and Speakers | Seminar Recording
November 14, 2023
Enabling evidence-based sustainable forest management for Green, Resilient, Inclusive Development in Nepal
Description and Speakers | Seminar Recording
October 26, 2023
Harnessing the value of Water: Understanding its Significance as a Key Element of Natural Capital and Strategic Asset for the Changing Wealth of Nations Description and Speakers | Seminar Recording
September 21, 2023
REACH and FAB: A performance-linked financing framework for measuring impact and setting targetsDescription and Speakers | Seminar Recording
June 22, 2023
Making the Most of the Sovereign ESG Data Portal
Description and Speakers
Seminar RecordingMay 17, 2023
Improving Data and Analytics for Sustainable Forest Management in Nepal
Description, Speakers and Presentations
Seminar Recording
April 20, 2023
The Quest for Green GDP
Description, Speakers and Presentations
Seminar Recording
March 2, 2023
Forum for the Exchange of Knowledge on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services:
The Cases of Mexico, Uganda and Zambia
Description, Speakers and Presentations
Seminar RecordingOctober 26, 2022
Strengthening the Capacity for Measuring and Valuing Natural Capital in Ghana
Description and Speakers | Presentation
Seminar Recording
October 19, 2022
Renewable Energy: Unaccounted Wealth of Nations
Description and Speakers | Presentation
Seminar Recording
September 8, 2022
Improving Natural Capital Management
in Lao PDR
Description and Speakers | Seminar RecordingJuly 26, 2022
Natural Capital Accounts in Zambia
Description and Speakers | Presentation
Seminar Recording | Feature Story
June 21, 2022
Using Ecosystem Services Valuation to Strengthen Integrated Landscape Management in Mexico’s Watersheds
Description and Speakers | Presentation
Seminar Recording | Blog
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About the GPS Program
The Global Program on Sustainability (GPS) promotes the use of high-quality data and analysis on natural capital, ecosystem services, and sustainability to better inform decisions made by governments, the private sector, and financial institutions.