Links to Cleaner Production Tools: Environmental Accounting

• EPA Environmental Accounting Project -- http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/acctg/ -- mission is to encourage and motivate business to understand the full spectrum of their environmental costs, and integrate these costs into decision making. Includes downloadable .pdf files 
• Environmental Management Accounting -- http://www.emawebsite.org/ -- affiliated with EPA; excellent searchable database and many other good resources
• Environmental Management Accounting Initiative -- http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/estema1.htm --  EMA: a mechanism to identify and measure the full spectrum of environmental costs of current production processes and the economic benefits of pollution prevention or cleaner processes, and to integrate these costs and benefits into day-to-day business decision-making. Major UN site - principles and procedures, many good resources
• London Group on Environmental Accounting --  http://www4.statcan.ca/citygrp/london/london.htm -- forum for practitioners to share their experience of developing and implementing environmental accounts, also http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/citygroup/londongroup.htm
• Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting 2003  -- http://unstats.un.org/unsd/envAccounting/seea.htm -- multi-lingual handbook available from UNEP as a free download. More EA information at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/envAccounting/default.htm   
• MPO: Macroeconomics for Sustainability Programme Office --  http://www.panda.org/resources/programmes/mpo/ -- studies in various countries
• Environmental Reporting Clearinghouse --  http://cei.sund.ac.uk/envrep/erepacc.htm -- EA resource list includes full text of current papers  on the topic
• Environmental Management Accounting -- http://www.aprcp.org/articles/Training/training.htm -- downloadable manual from the Asia-Pacific Roundtable on CP         

See also 

• Cleaner Production Tools - Detailed Information
• What is Environmental Accounting?

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