Environment Statistics

As part of the Development Account Project on Supporting Member States in developing and strengthening environment statistics and integrated environmental-economic accounting for improved monitoring of sustainable development, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) organized the Final Workshop on Environment Statistics for the East African Community (EAC) member states in Arusha, Tanzania from 23 to 27 October 2017.

The Workshop focused on discussing the progress in the implementation of the FDES 2013, finalizing a regional environment statistics compendium and further developing a list of regional indicators based on EAC policies which will help countries prioritize their work to improve regional integration. The countries presented the results made in environment statistics during the project. They also shared their experiences by presenting the main challenges they faced and how they overcame them. Other topics related to environment statistics were presented, such as climate change statistics.