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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. Å·ÃÀÈÕb´óƬ recently launched the latest edition of the series, , 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:  

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SPEAKERS

• Moderator - Matias Piaggio, Senior Economist, World Bank
• Opening remarks ¨C Siet Meijer, Senior Environmental Specialist, PROGREEN Trust Fund Manager
• Global forest ecosystem services metanalysis - Juha Siik?maki, International Union for Conservation of Nature - IUCN
• Global carbon stocks in vegetation and soils ¨C 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