INVITATION LETTER	INFORMATION NOTE
Paul Cheung Director, United Nations Statistics Division	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
Annotated Agenda
Final Report
Presentations
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	UNEP and Climate Change
Olav Ljones Deputy Director General, Statistics Norway	The climate change, the Oslo meeting ­- and so what?
Raymundo J. Talento Director, National Statistical Coordination Board	Gearing the Philippine Statistical System Towards the Measurement of the Impact of Climate Change
	Gearing a National Statistical System Towards the Measurement of the Impact of Climate Change: The Case of the Philippines1
Mohan Singh CSO, India	Development of Statistics on Climate Change in India
Matt Wootton Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry New Zealand	Benefits of Presenting Statistical Information in a Geospatial Context
Matthias Bruckner Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations	Climate Change and Indicators of Sustainable Development
Helmut Mayer Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Environmental-Economic Accounting	Social and economic determinants of CO2-emissions in Germany 1995-2006
Julie L. Hass European Commission – Eurostat	Learning from Environmental Accounting to Meet Climate Change Challenges
Thomas Olsen Statistics Denmark	Integrated Environmental-Economic Accounts for Tradeable Carbon Dioxide Emission Permits
Torstein Bye Director, Dep. of Economics, Energy and Environment, Statistics Norway	Some economic aspects of climate change Instruments and statistics
	Some economic aspects of climate change.  Instruments and statistics
Seong Ho, Han & Hae Ryun, Kim Statistics Research Institute Korea National Statistical Office	National System and Improvement of GHG Estimation in Korea
Sonia Petrie Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand	Statistics in Action,  New Zealand’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Takeshi Enoki Greenhouse Gas Inventory Office of Japan (GIO), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)	Greenhouse Gas Inventory Development in Japan
Riitta Pipatti Statistics Finland	National greenhouse gas inventories and official statistics - Finnish experiences
Peter Harper Deputy Australian Statistician Australian Bureau of Statistics	Climate Change and Official Statistics The Way Forward
Julie L. Hass European Commission – Eurostat	Discussant: Session 5. The Way Forward

Contact:

Eszter Horvath
UN Statistics Division
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Tel. No: 1 (212) 963 4581

Fax No: 1 (212) 963 0623

E-mail: horvath@un.org