Environment Statistics

Meeting documents

• Final Agenda
• Final Report

Papers and Presentations for the Meeting

Opening Session:

• UNSD - Welcome speech by Stefan Schweinfest, Director, UNSD

Session One: Climate Change Statistics and Indicators

        Implementation of the Global Set

• UNSD - Outcome of the survey on ‘State of the implementation of the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators’
• UNFCCC -New requirements for transparency

        Related inter-governmental, regional and national initiatives on climate change statistics

• FAO - Updates from FAO: agriculture, forestry, land use, emissions from LULUCF
• UNDRR/ESCAP - Work of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on Disaster-related Statistics; implementation of the Sendai
  Framework in countries
• OECD - Updates on International Programme for Action on Climate (IPAC)
• UNECE - Updates on the work of the UNECE Task Force on the role of NSOs in achieving national climate objectives

          National experiences

• Brazil - Experience with the Global Set
• Netherlands - Self-Assessment Green Deal
• Cabo Verde - Experience with the Global Set
• Suriname - Experience with the Global Set

        Development of methodology and implementation support for the Global Set

• UNSD - Overview of methodological and implementation support updates
• UK-ONS - Climate and health
• Advisory Group to IAEG-GS - Climate and gender
• ECLAC/ECLAC consultant - Applications of CISAT
• COMESA consultants - Applications of Implementation Guidelines and roadmaps

Session Two: Environment Statistics Data Collection

       Water Statistics

• WHO - Keynote presentation on Water Conference, implications on new data requirements
• UNSD - UNSD showcase of practical use of country owned water data for SDGs



Panel discussion:

• WHO - SDG Indicator 6.3.1
• FAO AQUASTAT data for Agriculture and Food Security Policies
• Palestine - From raw data source in country to informing SDG policy making, and other water policies and uses
• Ireland - Water Supply and Waste Water Data Sources for SDGs in Ireland​

        Waste Statistics

• UNEP - Recent developments on waste statistics
• UN-UNITAR - Global e-waste statistics: Recent development and links to Environment Statistics
• UN-Habitat - Recent developments on waste statistics: UN-Habitat’s Work on SDG 11.6.1
• UNSD - UNSD showcase of practical use of country owned waste data for SDGs
• Bangladesh - Recent developments on waste statistics: Revised waste statistics--An example of Bangladesh
• Mauritius - Recent developments on waste statistics: Data Collection for the Republic of Mauritius



Other data collection and reporting requirements (data collection instruments)

• UNSD - Data sources used in environment and climate change statistics
• Pacific Community - Developments in survey module on climate change
• Tanzania - Tanzania’s experience on climate change related data collections via Population and Housing Census

Session Three: Environment Statistics Toolbox

        FDES and the Basic Set of Environment Statistics

• UNSD - Implementation of the FDES and national compendia on environment statistics
• UNEP - ESSAT applications

Session Four: Capacity Development in Environment Statistics and Climate Change Statistics

        Capacity development

• UNSD - Capacity development for environment and climate change statistics
• UNEP/ESCAP - Activities on Climate Change and Disaster-related statistics under the DA 14 project
• Other related initiatives: Paris21 - Lessons-learned from PARIS21 on mobilizing climate change data ecosystems
• ECE -Updates on capacity development activities
• ECLAC - Updates on capacity development activities from ECLAC, including outcomes from DA12 project and beyond
• ESCAP - Updates on capacity development activities
• ESCWA - Updates on capacity development activities
• CARICOM - Updates on capacity development activities
• COMESA - Updates on capacity development activities