Conference on Climate Change, Development and Official Statistics in the Asia-Pacific Region
(SEOUL, KOREA)
    
Conference on Climate Change and Official Statistics
(OSLO, NORWAY)
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Conference on Climate Change, Development
and Official Statistics
in the Asia-Pacific Region

Seoul, the Republic of Korea
11-12 December 2008


Paul Cheung
Director, United Nations Statistics Divisio
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Kim, Dae Ki
Commissioner, Korea National Statistical Office

The Korea National Statistical Office (KNSO) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) are jointly organizing a Conference on Climate Change, Development and Official Statistics in the Asia-Pacific Region. The conference will be held in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, on 11-12 December 2008.

The Conference is to discuss the regional relevance of the recommendations of the Oslo Conference on Climate Change and Official Statistics held in April 2008 and to contribute to the shaping and refining of a roadmap for the development of official climate change statistics at the national, regional and the international level. The roadmap will be submitted to the 40th session of the UN Statistical Commission in February 2009 for further deliberation.

Opening Remarks Paul Cheung, Director, United Nations Statistics Division
Lee Byoung-Gook
Director General for Climate Change Policy Planning
Climate Policies for Low Carbon Green Growth
Jinhua Zhang
Early Warning and Assessment-Asia & the Pacific, United Nations Environment Programme
Olav Ljones
Deputy Director General, Statistics Norway
Raymundo J. Talento
Director, National Statistical Coordination Board
  Gearing a National Statistical System Towards the
Measurement of the Impact of Climate Change: The Case of the Philippines1
Mohan Singh CSO, India
Matt Wootton
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
New Zealand
Matthias Bruckner
Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Helmut Mayer
Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Environmental-Economic Accounting
Julie L. Hass
European Commission – Eurostat
Thomas Olsen
Statistics Denmark
Torstein Bye
Director, Dep. of Economics, Energy and Environment, Statistics Norway
  Some economic aspects of climate change.  Instruments and statistics
Seong Ho, Han & Hae Ryun, Kim
Statistics Research Institute
Korea National Statistical Office
Sonia Petrie
Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand
Takeshi Enoki
Greenhouse Gas Inventory Office of Japan (GIO), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)
Riitta Pipatti
Statistics Finland
Peter Harper
Deputy Australian Statistician
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Julie L. Hass
European Commission – Eurostat

Contact:

Eszter Horvath
UN Statistics Division
2 United Nations Plaza, DC2-1418
New York, New York 10017, USA

Tel. No: 1 (212) 963 4581

Fax No: 1 (212) 963 0623

E-mail: horvath@un.org