rk of the London Group and insist that the standard- setting process involve participants representing a spectrum of viewpoints, countries, and interested stakeholders. An opportunity exists for research institutes to take a lead in identifying the financial resources needed to facilitate a broader standardsetting process, and to elicit a full range of voices to build a consensus on methodology. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the more countries institutionalize construction of environmental accounts, the greater the momentum for more of the same. Still, building accounts — like developing any timeseries statistics — will not happen overnight. Their construction will require sustained institutional and mitment to ensure that the investment lasts long enough to yield results. But the
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