INVITATION LETTER	INFORMATION NOTE
Paul Cheung Director, United Nations Statistics Division	Yi, Insill Commissioner, Statistics Korea

This Seminar is being organised by the United Nations Statistics Division, in collaboration with Statistics Korea, the national statistics office of the Republic of Korea. 

A green economy has been recognised as one of the critical development models for the future which improves well-being and social equity while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. The concept of a green economy has become a centre of policy debates in recent years. During the recent global financial crisis, the United Nations General Assembly and several United Nations agencies underscored that the crisis represented an opportunity to promote green economy initiatives as part of the stimulus packages being put in place to support the recovery. The General Assembly has decided one of its major themes for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro as “a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.”

We envisage the following outcomes from the Seminar:
• A recognition that official statistics will be required to inform on green economy issues and that national statistical systems will accordingly need to adapt.
• An emerging understanding of the key issues/indicators that official statistics will need to focus on.
• A sense of the work that international agencies and the United Nations Statistical Commission might best focus on, over and above what they are already doing, to support countries in this work.

Opening Remarks	Paul Cheung, Director, United Nations Statistics Division
	Yi, Insill, Commissioner, Statistics Korea
	Rae Kwon Chung, Director, Environment and Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Annotated Agenda
Program of Work
Final Report
Presentations
Soogil Young Chairman, Presidential Committee on Green Growth	Korea's Green Growth Policies and Challenges
Chun Kyoo Park Director-General, Climate Change Policy Team, Presidential Committee on Green Growth	Green Growth Policy of the Republic of Korea
Yeon Ok Choi Director-General, Statistical Research Institute	Development of Green Growth Statistics
Rae Kwon Chung Director, Environment and Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific	Measuring System Changefor Green Growth
Walter Radermacher Director-General, Eurostat	Green Economy and Official Statistics
Paul Schreyer Deputy Director, Statistics Directorate, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development	Green Growth Indicators: OECD Experience
Glenn-Marie Lange Team leader, Policy and Economics, Environment Department, The World Bank	The World Bank’s Work on Statistics for Green Growth
Robert Edwards Inter-regional Adviser, United Nations Statistics Division	The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) – A framework for measuring interactions between the environment and the economy
Fulai Sheng Head, Research and Partnerships Unit, United Nations Environment Programme	Monitoring the Transition Towards a Green Economy
Stefan Ulrich Speck Integrated Environmental Assessments Programme, European Environment Agency	Economic Instruments as a Tool for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction – the perspective of EU countries
Peter Harper Deputy Australian Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics	Economic instruments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and statistical issues arising
Konrad Pesendorfer Director General, Statistics Austria	Identifying Green Jobs - Adapting Statistical Classifications
Ralf Becker Head, Industrial and Energy Statistics Section, United Nations Statistics Division	Adapting statistical classifications to green growth measurement
Mieke Reece Section Head, Oil and Gas Statistics, International Energy Agency	Energy statistics to inform on energy supply and demand
Paul Schreyer Deputy Director, Statistics Directorate, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development	Measuring Carbon Dioxide Emissions Embodied in Consumption
Rob Smith Director, Environmental Accounts and Statistics, Statistics Canada	The Role of Household Surveys in Measuring the Green Economy Material and Energy Flow Data in Measures of the Green Economy
Sjoerd Schenau Project Manager, National Accounts, Statistics Netherlands	Green Growth in the Netherlands
Francisco Javier Jiminez Nava Deputy Director General of Natural Resources and Environment, National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico	Vegetation and Green growth in Mexico
V. Parmeshwarn Deputy Director General, Central Statistical Organisation, India	Environmental Accounting: Indian Perspective
Francisco Guillen Martin Deputy General Director of National Accounts, National Institute of Statistics and Geography, Mexico	Economic and Environmental Accounting and Green Growth The Economic-Environmental Accounting and the Green Growth
Riaan Grobler Manager, Application of National Accounts, Statistics South Africa	Statistics South Africa’s position on environmental statistics

Contact:

Rob Edwards
United Nations Statistics Division
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New York, New York 10017, USA

Tel. No: 1 917 367 3800
Fax No: 1 212 963 9851
Email: edwards6@un.org