Description: Addressing climate change, biodiversity loss and other related issues requires high quality and consistent data on the environment-economy nexus. The System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) provides the agreed upon statistical framework for measuring the relationship between the environment and the economy. There is a need to strengthen the capacities of NSOs to produce and disseminate SEEA accounts to better meet the needs of users for high quality integrated data on climate change, biodiversity and the economy. In the Central Asia region, national statistical offices (NSOs) have expressed strong interest to compiling various SEEA accounts, including taking steps towards compiling energy and air emission accounts which are among the most relevant accounts for informing climate change. Ecosystem accounts inform biodiversity as well as climate change related issues. With the recent adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), demand by users for ecosystem accounts will increase as the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting is the methodological base for several headline indicators of the GBF. The workshop, organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), with the support of the Office of the Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Policy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of the Government of Japan, and in collaboration with the National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic aims to further build capacities in the Central Asia region for the compilation of SEEA accounts relevant to climate change and biodiversity.
Description: The European Free Trade Association, Statistics Norway and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) are holding a workshop to improve the capacity of national CRVS systems in the production and dissemination of vital statistics. The workshop specifically supports the implementation of Goal 3 the Regional Action Framework on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific which stipulates that accurate, complete and timely vital statistics (including on causes of death) are produced based on registration records and are disseminated. The workshop will run between 7 and 11 October 2019 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The workshop will strengthen countries’ capacity of national statistical systems to produce, disseminate and communicate vital statistics, based on civil registration records and other data sources, and thus support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The key objectives are: Countries to develop or improve vital statistics publications Improved collaboration between agencies working on CRVS and data/statistics Improved knowledge among experts on CRVS and on user friendly data dissemination >>> Link to meeting website.
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