【摘要】The United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting was established by the United Nations Statistical Commission at its at its 36th Session in March 2005.The United Nations Statistics Division organized a preliminary meeting of the Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting in New York from 29 to 31 August 2005.At the meeting,participants agreed on terms of reference for the Committee;formulated its long-term objectives;developed its program of work;and agreed on its governance.The terms of reference for the Committee were approved by the Bureau of the Statistical Commission in November 2005 and are contained in the annex.At its preliminary meeting, the Committee agreed on its overall objectives, namely:(a) to mainstream environmental-economic accounting and related statistics;(b) to elevate the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) to an international statistical standard; and (c) to advance the implementation of SEEA at the global level.With the objective of the Committee to elevate the SEEA to an international statistical standard on environmental-economic accounting by 2010,the advancement of methodologies in environmental-economic accounting is an important element of work for the Committee.This paper will provide a preliminary list of unresolved issues in the SEEA-2003 which are needed to be further developed in the coming years.