Description: With support from the Data for Now initiative, the Collaborative on Citizen Data, and PARIS21, a workshop was organized 10-13 March 2025, in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, to bring together the NSC of the Kyrgyz Republic and a number of civil society organisations to address persistent data gaps in SDG reporting. Through a series of collaborative sessions and dialogues, stakeholders jointly explored how CSO-generated data could complement official statistics and contribute to a more inclusive understanding of national development progress.
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.
