Environment Statistics

Meeting documents

• Agenda
• Final Report

Papers and Presentations for the Meeting

Opening Session:

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

Session 1: Streamlining environment and climate change statistics

        Updates on integration and communication

• UNSD - New Expert Group on Environment and Climate Change Statistics
• UNSD -Highlights from the written statements to the Statistical Commission

Session 2: Climate Change Statistics and Indicators

        Updates on Reporting to the Paris Agreement and development of climate change statistics

• UNSD - Uses of the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators
• UNFCCC -New requirements for transparency and overview of submission of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs)

        Related inter-governmental, regional and national initiatives on climate change statistics - Panel
        discussion: Updates on international climate change programmes and options for synergies and
        cooperation between the main institutions leading these programmes

• FAO
• OECD
• WMO
• UNDRR
• UNECE

        National experiences on climate change statistics - Panel discussion: Sharing lessons on national
        advancements on climate change statistics along the sequence of recommended steps in the
        Implementation Guidelines for the Global Set

• New Zealand
• Brazil
• Italy
• Nepal
• Uganda

        Development of methodology and implementation support for the Global Set

• UNSD - Observations on methodology development by international agencies
• ESCAP - Shaping the Future of Disaster-Related Statistics: Towards a Common Statistical Framework
• UK-ONS - Climate and health
• UNSD - Climate and gender
• Colombia - Climate and gender
• UNSD/consultant - Use of surveys and censuses for climate change data collection
• UNSD/consultant - Use of alternative sources, big data and data science for climate change statistics

Session 3: Environment Statistics Data Collection

        Environment Statistics Data Collection

• UNSD - UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics (water and waste sections)
• UN-Habitat/WHO - SDG 6.3.1 Progress on wastewater treatment – contributions to global water security

       Water Statistics - Panel Discussion: Advancing harmonization of international data collection
        processes, following evolving policy demands

• OECD
• UN-Habitat
• FAO
• Jordan
• Slovenia

        Waste Statistics - Panel discussion: Emerging waste topics, use and analysis of national data

• UNITAR
• UNEP
• OECD
• Eurostat
• Hungary
• Tanzania

Other data collection and reporting requirements (data collection instruments)

• UNSD - Observations on data collection by international agencies
• UNSD - Data sources used in environment and climate change statistics
• Pacific Community - Advancements and developments in survey module on climate change
• Netherlands - Annual population survey on Perceptions in the Netherlands

Session 4: Environment Statistics Toolbox

        FDES and the Basic Set of Environment Statistics

• UNSD - Implementation of the FDES and production of environment compendia
• Botswana - National application of FDES and ESSAT
• UNEP - New applications of the FDES and ESSAT
• Luxembourg - Same tools but different uses

Session 5: Capacity Development in Environment Statistics and Climate Change Statistics

        Capacity development

• UNSD - Observations on capacity development by international agencies
• Paris21 - Improving Climate Change Data Ecosystems for Better Climate Action

        Capacity development activities led by regional institutions - Panel discussion:

• ECA
• ECE
• ECLAC
• ESCAP
• CARICOM
• COMESA

• UNEP - UNEP’s experience on collaboration on Strengthening Climate Change and Disaster-Related Statistics