NINA is co-organizing a session at ESP Europe 2026 Conference in Prague focused on the challenges and solutions to implement Urban Ecosystem Accounting under the UN SEEA-EA framework.
In May the 6th ESP Europe Conference is taking place in Prague. NINA is co-organizing a session with research colleagues from Italy and Germany at ESP Europe 2026 Conference in Prague focused on the challenges and solutions to implement Urban Ecosystem Accounting under the UN SEEA-EA framework. We aim to bring together public officers, researchers, and technical experts that, like you, work on the topic of urban ecosystem accounting to discuss critical challenges, current approaches, and co-develop actionable recommendations to advance towards a coherent and pragmatic urban ecosystem accounting framework under SEEA-EA. In ESP Europe 2026, we will mainly collect European perspectives on this topic, but we are open to experiences of professionals beyond Europe.
To formalize the workshop as an activity within ESP Europe 2026, the conference organizers require that key active participants interested in participating and shaping the discussions within the workshop submit a short abstract. We have structured this requirement to directly feed into our workshop outcomes.
We invite you to participate in the workshop, and shape its discussions, by submitting an abstract that addresses specific questions (please, see the document attached) around four themes:
• Current challenges in developing/implementing urban ecosystem accounts.
• Practical Bottlenecks from your perspective.
• Your Practical Experience with solutions.
• Actionable Recommendations for a coherent pragmatic framework.
The questions are just a guide you only need to write your abstract around the ones relevant to your work and experience or current specific themes of interest within urban ecosystem accounting. The collected abstracts will serve as the foundational material for preparing activities and discussions in the workshop and a starting base for the collective synthesis roadmap, a key session’s outputs. Using very similar questions, we are also collecting feedback from a wider group of experts to be shared within the workshop.
Your practical experience is crucial to making this session valuable and grounded. Please consider contributing an abstract. We also welcome you to share this invitation or to put us in contact with other relevant colleagues from your or partner institutions who may be interested in the workshop.
Thank you for your consideration.
For questions, contact David Barton.