Taking the Environment Into Account: The Namea Approach

Abstract

The National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) shows environmental burdens that are consistent with the economic figures in the national accounts. In the NAMEA, the existing national accounts matrix has been extended with accounts in physical units. On the basis of the expected contribution of each polluting substance to a particular environmental problem, emissions are converted to theme equivalents. This results in six summary environmental indicators that are directly comparable to the conventional economic aggregates. In addition, this meso‐level information system can be used as the core data framework for integrated analyses and forecasts of economic and environmental changes.

CO2Embodied in International Trade with Implications for Global Climate Policy

“…In the IPCC definition, emission inventories are allocated according to "national (including administered) territories and offshore areas over which the country has jurisdiction" (33), while our production-based inventories are based on the economic activities of residential institutions as defined in the System of National Accounts (SNA) (34) and used in the NAMEA (35,36). Generally the underlying source data are the same, but the productionbased inventories include international economic activitiesprimarily, international transportation and tourism-as defined in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (12).…”

Interaction Between National Accounts and Socio‐economic Policy

“…The same letter describes the development of the NAMEA, the framework for integrated economic and environmental accounts and indicators, at Statistics Netherlands (cf. Keuning and De Haan, 1997;De Haan and Keuning, 1996). The above statement nicely demonstrates why the NAMEA is considered of use to policy-makers: it yields both relevant aggregate indicators and an accounting framework for use in modelling and policy analyses.…”

“…It started with the compilation of a pilot SAM (Timmerman and Van de Ven, 1994) and a National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) (De Haan and Keuning, 1996;Keuning and De Haan, 1997). In this NAMEA-framework, environmental accounts and summary indicators in physical units are linked to a conventional national accounts matrix.…”

NAFTA and Industrial Pollution: Some General Equilibrium Results

“…The construction of this matrix and its data sources are documented in the appendix. The IPPS effluent data are utilized at the 2-and 3-digit ISIC levels to create satellite environmental accounts to this SAM as suggested by Barker (1992), United Nations (1993a,b), and de Haan and Keuning (1996). As is recommended by their compilers, IPPS effluent data are utilized in 1 Most AGE modelers have included only one or two of the North American countries in their model.…”