Eighth Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics
Virtual Meeting, via UN headquarters, New York
- 12-14 and 19-20 October 2021
Seventh Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics
- Virtual Meeting, via UN headquarters, New York
- 12-14 and 19-20 October 2021
The Eighth Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics will be held virtually on 12-14 and 19-20 October 2021.
Meeting documents
Papers and Presentations for the Meeting
Session One: Climate Change Statistics and Indicators: Global Set
Towards globally coordinated work on climate change statistics and indicators
- UNSD - Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators
- UNFCCC - Linking climate change statistics and policy
- Suriname - Country experience
- New Zealand - Country experience
- United Kingdom - Country experience
- Tanzania - Country experience
- UNSD/UNFCCC - Results of the Global Consultation - Part I
- UNSD - Results of the Global Consultation - Part II
- UNSD - Introduction to group work on the draft Global Set:
Related inter-governmental/regional initiatives on climate change statistics
- UNECE - ECE set of indicators
- CARICOM - CARICOM set of indicators
- OECD - Linking the International Programme for Action on Climate (IPAC) initiative on climate change indicators to the Global Set
- UNSD - Complementarity of various initiatives and the Global Set
- FAO - GHG emissions along the food system chain
- UNDRR - Disaster-related statistics and link to climate change statistics
Draft Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators
Group work
Selected thematic initiatives and way forward
Session Two: Environment Statistics Data Collection
Water Statistics
- UNSD - UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics – value of country data for informing policy questions, collaboration in water statistics
- UN-HABITAT/WHO - Use of Questionnaire wastewater data for informing SDG indicator 6.3.1, project research and related publications
- OECD/Eurostat - Technical issues concerning water data collections, in particular on wastewater
- Jordan - Country experience providing water data to the UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire
- UNSD - UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics – results and uses of the data collection and relevance to SDG indicators; raw data agreeing with international standards; work on 11.6.1, 12.4.2 and 12.5.1
- UNEP - SDG indicator 12.3.1 (b) Food waste index
- Hungary - Country experience collecting food waste data
- UNSD - Introduction to data collection instruments for environment statistics and climate change statistics (Part I: Questions D5-D6 of Country Global Consultation)
- Nepal - Country experiences: Use of specialized environmental/climate change surveys or inclusion of related questions in censuses
- Tanzania - Country experiences: Use of specialized environmental/climate change surveys or inclusion of related questions in censuses
- FAO - Questionnaires on pesticides, fertilizers, and land use: Relationship to climate change
Waste Statistics
Other data collection and reporting requirements (data collection instruments)
Session Three: Environment Statistics Toolbox
FDES and the Basic Set of Environment Statistics
- UNSD - Status and completion of the Manual on the Basic Set of Environment Statistics (Disasters, Environmental health, Information and awareness, Geology, Water quality, Wastewater)
- UNSD - ESSAT application for climate change statistics based on Parts I and II of the Global Consultation
Session Four: Capacity Development in Environment Statistics and Climate Change Statistics
Capacity development – bilateral and multilateral assistance
- UNSD - Capacity development events and activities on climate change statistics (Part I of Global Consultation: Part F and G of Country Global Consultation and Part C of Agency Global Consultation)
- ECLAC - Regional activities
- ESCAP - Regional activities
- ECE - Regional activities
- ESCWA - Regional activities
- CARICOM - Regional activities
Recent updates
Climate Change Statistics
FDES 2013
- Basic Set of Environment Statistics
- FDES 2013 brochure
- Blueprint for Action
- Environment statistics compendia
- Environment Statistics Self-Assessment Tool
- Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES 2013)
- SDG indicators + Basic Set (FDES) matrix
- Manual on the Basic Set of Environment Statistics
- Expert Group on Environment Statistics
