Environment Statistics

Meeting documents

• Final Agenda
• Final Report

Papers and Presentations for the Meeting

Opening Session: COVID-19 and environment statistics

• UNSD - Impacts of and responses to the pandemic on environment statistics
• Italy - COVID-19 statistical measures and the related SDGs
• Brazil - Information production to support coping the COVID-19 in Brazil

Session 1: Environment Statistics Toolbox

• UNSD - Status and completion of the Manual and implementation tools (ESSAT and NAP reporting templates)
• UNSD - Draft chapter on Environmental Health Statistics
• UNSD - Draft chapter on Wastewater Statistics
• Netherlands - Water quality, nutrient budgets

Papers and Presentations for the Meeting

Session 2: Climate Change Statistics and Indicators

• UNSD - Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators
• UNFCCC - Linking climate change statistics and policy
• IPCC - IPCC’s guidelines and tools for the national GHG inventory
• UNECE - Updates on UNECE work in climate change-related statistics
• Hungary - Hungarian challenges and outcomes of the Pilot Survey
• CARICOM - From environment statistics to climate change statistics in CARICOM - an exploratory approach
• EUROSTAT - Eurostat’s work on climate change-related statistics
• UNSD - Results of the Pilot Survey
• Suriname - Structure of the draft Global Set - Suriname’s experience
• Tanzania - Metadata template of the draft Global Set
• UNSD - Introduction to group work on the draft Global Set

Session Three: Environment Statistics Data Collection

• UNSD - Introduction to data collection activities
• FAO - FAO agri-environmental data collection and progress on SDG 2.4.1
• CBD - Building a coherent biodiversity monitoring system to support national, regional and global decision making
• Suriname - Suriname’s experience on the Global Biodiversity Framework: flash presentation
• UNSD - UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics (Water) – results and uses of the data collection and relevance to SDG indicators
• FAO - Selected SDG indicators related to the FAO Aquastat Questionnaire – 6.4.1 and 6.4.2
• OECD - OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire on Inland Waters and related international collaboration
• UN-Habitat - Progress in SDG indicator 6.3.1 on wastewater
• Ireland - Using meteorological data for water statistics: flash presentation
• UNSD - UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics (Waste) – results and uses of the data collection and relevance to SDG indicators
• UN-Habitat - Progress in SDG indicator 11.6.1 on waste statistics
• UN Environment - Indicators 12.4.2 and 12.5.1
• Nepal - Waste management baseline survey
• UNU - Utilization of e-waste data
• Palestine - E-waste in Palestine
• Tanzania - Tanzania’s experience on compilation of e-waste statistics - achievements and challenges: flash presentation

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

• UNSD - Inventory of capacity development events and activities
• Green Climate Fund - Capacity development for climate change
• Luxembourg - Luxembourg experience in capacity development during COVID-19
• Finland - Experience from Finland
• ESCWA - Capacity development in environment statistics and climate change statistics in the Arab Region
• ESCAP - A demand-driven approach to statistical capacity development: Advancing environment statistics, environmental and ecosystem accounting in Asia-Pacific
• ECLAC -Environment, climate change and disaster statistics and indicators work in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Australia - Capacity development work