Recommendation 37

As part of the third tranche of reform, the Commonwealth, in its national leadership role, should build on its own reforms by pursuing harmonisation with States and Territories to streamline national and international reporting by delivering:

1. a national environmental monitoring and evaluation framework, developed in collaboration with jurisdictions, to better understand the performance of the different parts of the national environmental management system
2. a nationally agreed system of environmental-economic accounts to support streamlined environmental reporting. These accounts should be continuously improved over time.