Although the ECA approach in itself has not been applied, a whole range of the accounts and data sets on which it rests have been used in different contexts and hence already undergone a verification process. While the ECA approach is not yet widely accepted, the need for the tool and its importance is widely recognised and the expert community is keen to see the ECA develop and be applied. The rationale behind the ECA and what its uses are can however be easily illustrated and communicated to non expert audiences. Hence, it may be used to identify the use of resource that indirectly result in biodiversity loss as far as the resource extraction that has impact on biodiversity is captured in the land use cover maps.