Description: This global webinar was organized as part of the activities of workstream 2.4 “Assessing the Impact of the Economy on the Environment” of the Statistics and Data Project “Resilient and agile National Statistical Systems to meet post-COVID-19 data needs to recover better” under the 14th tranche of the United Nations Development Account. It was co-organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Countries from the Western Asia, and Asia-Pacific regions were in attendance. This webinar followed a March webinar with the same content presented where member states from Europe and Africa attended. Upon the invitation of UNEP, UNSD presented on “Country-owned official statistics as a source for water statistics”. Due to the US Eastern 1:00am-4:00am time window of the webinar, the presentation was delivered via video on delay. When presenting on the context of water statistics collected via the UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics for over 20 years, UNSD emphasized sources used by countries, especially whereby a national statistical office maintains inter-institutional relations at varying levels (municipal, provincial, federal) of government. Methodologies and sources specified in the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics and the National Quality Assurance Frameworks Manual for Official Statistics were cited, as were existing work the section does whereby water statistics feed into policy frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators. For interested countries that are not currently involved in the data collection, they were advised to contact UNSD for information sessions on the Questionnaire. Such sessions are usually organized in collaboration with (co-)custodian organizations including UNEP, WHO and UN-Habitat and discussions include but are not limited to metadata of the indicators, concepts and definitions, use of the data and dissemination process.
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Global Webinar on Geospatial and Other Data Sources for Environment Statistics: Assessing the Impact of the Economy on the Environment
Description: This global webinar was organised as part of the activities of workstream 2.4 “Assessing the Impact of the Economy on the Environment” of the Statistics and Data Project “Resilient and agile National Statistical Systems to meet post-COVID-19 data needs to recover better” under the 14th tranche of the United Nations Development Account. It was co-organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Countries from the African, and Latin America and the Caribbean regions were in attendance. UNSD presented on “Country-owned official statistics as a source for water statistics”. UNSD emphasised sources used by countries, in particular that national statistical offices maintain inter-institutional relations at varying levels (municipal, provincial, federal) of government. Methodologies and sources specified in the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics and the National Quality Assurance Frameworks Manual for Official Statistics were referenced, as was UNSD’s work on water statistics which feeds into policy frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators. Interested countries that are not currently involved in the data collection, can reach out to UNSD for information sessions on the Questionnaire. Such sessions are usually organised in collaboration with (co-)custodian organisations including UNEP, WHO and UN-Habitat and discussions include but are not limited to metadata of the indicators, concepts and definitions, use of the data and dissemination process.
Description: The ninth Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics (EGES), organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), will be held virtually from 25 to 28 October 2022. The meeting will be attended by approximately 100 experts in environment statistics and climate change statistics from countries, as well as regional and international organizations.
Description: Environmental applications are what make statistics “environmental.” Statistical application to environmental issues such as weather, air, water quality, climate, soil, fisheries and other environmental activities often come with some challenges since most environmental applications do not fit into experimental settings and even results from controlled experiments are used to infer patterns in an uncontrolled, dynamic, and noisy setting. This presentation will expose the participants to computational tools/ skills needed to navigate through as an “Environmental Statistician”, and inform them on where their expertise will be needed in Nigeria and beyond.
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Description: The Eighth Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics (EGES), organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), will be held virtually on 12 – 14 and 19 – 20 October 2021. The meeting will be attended by approximately 100 experts in environment statistics and climate change statistics from countries as well as regional and international organizations
Description: The Seventh Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics (EGES), organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), will be held virtually on 10, 11, 12, 17 and 19 November 2020. The meeting will be attended by approximately 100 experts in environment statistics and climate change statistics from countries as well as regional and international organizations.
Description: The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, is organizing a Workshop on Environment Statistics and Climate Change Statistics for the CARICOM Region to be held from 4 to 8 November 2019 in St. George's, Grenada. The Workshop is being hosted by the Central Statistical Office of Grenada. The Workshop will offer technical knowledge to statisticians from the National Statistical Offices and experts in the Ministries of Environment (or equivalent institutions) in countries that have already embarked on environment statistics and are ready to receive further and in-depth training on the latest methodologies in environment statistics. Building on previous collaborative regional work undertaken by CARICOM and UNSD in environment statistics, the Workshop aims at providing detailed knowledge and understanding of the subject, thus allowing participants to identify gaps in environmental data, and contribute to the production of regular, accurate and reliable environment statistics that can allow developing environmental indicators and accounts relevant to policy making and SDGs monitoring. The Workshop will first provide an overview of the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES 2013) endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission at its forty-fourth session in 2013 as the framework for strengthening environment statistics programmes in countries. It will then focus on topics particularly relevant in the region, such as climate change statistics, water and waste statistics, the environmentally-related SDG indicators, and the CARICOM core set of SDG indicators: environmental indicators.
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Description: The training programme provides the opportunity for participants to learn basic concepts and frameworks, with hands-on sessions, of the Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES) and the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), with the overall aim to strengthen capacity to produce a set of statistics and indicators to inform environment-related policy decisions at the national and international levels.
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Description: The Sixth Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics (EGES), organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), will be held in New York from 21 to 23 May 2019. The meeting will be attended by approximately 35 experts in environment statistics from countries as well as regional and international organizations. The Statistical Commission at its forty-fourth session in 2013 endorsed the revised Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES 2013) as the framework for strengthening environment statistics programmes in countries and requested UNSD to convene a standing Expert Group on Environment Statistics to collaborate with and assist UNSD in future methodological work and other aspects of the application of the revised Framework in countries. The sixth meeting will discuss, inter alia: (i) the draft methodology sheets of the Manual for the Basic Set of Environment Statistics; (ii) the implementation of the FDES 2013 and the reporting template to summarize the results of the Environment Statistics Self-Assessment Tool (ESSAT); (iii) environmentally-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators; (iv) the regular biennial data collection in water and waste statistics via the UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics, including e-waste statistics; (v) climate change statistics and indicators; and (vi) capacity development.
