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

        Towards globally coordinated work on climate change statistics and indicators

• UNFCCC - Global needs for climate change statistics: implementation of the Paris Agreement ETF and Global Stocktake, other needs
• UNSD - Global Set on Climate Change Statistics and Indicators

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

• FAO - Emissions from agri-food systems: Global, regional and country trends: 1990–2020
• UNDRR - Disaster-related statistics and link to climate change statistics
• OECD - Progress towards net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and a more resilient economy by 2050: IPAC
• UNECE - UNECE Task Force on the role of NSOs in achieving national climate objectives

          National experiences: Country experiences on applying the Global Set

• Climate change related indicators - Luxembourg experience
• Application of the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators in the Republic of Mauritius
• Climate change related indicators of Nepal, 2022
• Suriname's experience with applying the Global Set

        Methodology development and implementation of the Global Set

• UNSD - Updates of the Global Set and revision of the metadata
• UK - Standards for Official Statistics on Climate-Health Interactions
• UNSD/UNWomen - Climate and gender
• UNSD - Implementation guidelines
• UNSD - Climate-ESSAT

Session Two: Environment Statistics Data Collection

        Water Statistics

• UNSD - Questionnaire on Environment Statistics – water section
• WHO/UN-Habitat - Advancements in wastewater data for informing SDG indicator 6.3.1
• OECD/Eurostat - The Joint OECD/Eurostat Questionnaire: international harmonisation, alignment with SEEA and SDG reporting
• FAO - FAO’s data collection on water statistics in the 2022 cycle and demands for SDG indicators in Goal 6

         Country experience providing water data to the UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire and the OECD/Eurostat Questionnaire

• Armenia - UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics
• Italy - Assessment of the current status on Water Statistics: the Italian experience

        Waste Statistics

• UNSD - Questionnaire on Environment Statistics – waste section
• UNEP - SDG indicators consolidation
• UNEP - SDG 12 Hub
• UN-Habitat - Progress of Monitoring SDG indicator 11.6.1 and Trend in Plastic Leakage Sources in the World Cities

         Country experience collecting waste data

• UAE - Waste Statistics in United Arab Emirates

        Other data collection and reporting requirements (data collection instruments)

• UNSD - Data sources used in environment and climate change statistics
• Nepal - National Climate Change Impact Survey II
• Tanzania - Climate change related data collections via Population and Housing Censuses
• Bangladesh - Climate change-related statistics via surveys/censuses
• Pacific Community - Construction of a survey module on climate change
• FAO - Food and agriculture data collection: agricultural surveys and censuses and link to climate change statistics

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 (Overall, including geology, health)
• Netherlands - Methodology sheet on Freshwater Quality Statistics
• Jordan - Application of FDES in Jordan
• Belize - Results of application of ESSAT

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

       Capacity development

• UNSD - Global capacity development

        Related initiatives

• Paris21 - Climate Change Data Ecosystems for Better Climate Action: Introducing an assessment framework

        Activities led by regional institutions

• ECE - Review of the ECE Guidelines for the Application of Environmental Indicators
• ECLAC - DA12 Project: Climate Change and Disaster Statistics in the Caribbean
• ESCAP - ESCAP DA14
• CARICOM - Capacity Development related to Environment and Climate Change Statistics in the Caribbean Community
• COMESA - Climate change statistics development in COMESA region