some countries such as peru have set specific targets to make progress towards natural capital accounting one of the targets featured in the peru bicentenary plan under biodiversity objectives is the increase in the share of regional governments that have conducted an evaluation and valuation of their natural resources and to increase the number of environmental variables in the national accounts however so far only a few countries have taken steps towards natural capital accounting and these generally focus on areas where demand for accounting is clear and linked to specific policy questions oecd