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UNECE work
on environment statistics and
related areas
Tiina Luige
UNECE Statistical Division
Bangkok
2–4 December 2013
Contents
Measuring Sustainable Development
Joint Task Force on Environmental indicators
Climate Change United Nations Development Account (UNDA) Project
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Measuring sustainable
development
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Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Working /
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Group on Measuring Sustainable Development (2006–2008)
Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Task Force on Measuring Sustainable Development – set up in 2010 to continue the work
CES Recommendations on measuring
CES Recommendations on measuring sustainable development approved in 2013, to be published beginning 2014
Measuring sustainable
development
Under UNDA project: • Workshop 29 October 2012 + desk study = Overview of the situation in the EECCA countries on:
• public policies related to SD • approaches to SD measurement
• sustainable development indicators used
• High‐level Workshop 12–13 June 2013: measuring g
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sustainable development and implementing the System of Environmental‐Economic Accounting (SEEA)
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Measuring sustainable
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Next steps
• CES Recommendations
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• Pilot testing the indicator sets
– in Australia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine • Possibly further methodological work
• Input to the United Nations process of setting up the Input to the United Nations process of setting up the
SDGs and related targets and indicators
• Adjusting the indicators to SDGs when these will be set up
JTF on environmental
indicators
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Set up by the UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy (CEP) and the Conference of European Statisticians (CES) in 2009
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Mandate ‐ assist national statistical agencies and institutions, responsible for the production of national State of Environment reports in EECCA and South‐East Europe in: – Improving environmental statistics and indicators
– Strengthening environmental reporting
– Promoting comparability of environmental statistics and indicators in the pan‐European region
 Functioning
– JTF comprises environmental experts and statisticians from the UNECE region, with a focus on EECCA and SEE
– Held 8 face‐to‐face meetings (Aug 2009 to Nov 2013)
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JTF on environmental
indicators
 reviewed 36 indicators covered by the Indicator Guidelines
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 agreed on 13 additional indicators  revised Guidelines =>Common harmonized formats are available for countries for the production of the indicators
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 agreed on a core set: 8 indicators, 11 datasets
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Guidelines for the Application of Environmental Indicators in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia
(Indicator Guidelines) were prepared by the CEP Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment and
endorsed at the Belgrade (2007) “Environment for Europe” Ministerial Conference.
http://www.unece.org/env/europe/monitoring/IandR_en.html
JTF on environmental
indicators - core set
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JTF on environmental
indicators
 Proposed that countries expand the production beyond the core set
Proposed that countries expand the production beyond the core set
 Challenges in producing the core set of indicators:
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Gaps in administrative procedures on data production and sharing
Lack of effective interagency cooperation for data flow
Turnover of staff dealing with data
Inconsistent data sets due to use of different formats and technical support
 7th session (Nov 2013) reviewed progress achieved in producing the core set:
 Which core set indicators are produced and made available on web
 Format of the disseminated data sets
 Progress in addressing the identified challenges
 Have the countries expanded the production to other indicators
JTF on environmental
indicators – future work
 JTF
JTF terms of reference until end 2014, planned to continue
terms of reference until end 2014 planned to continue
 Next Ministerial Conference under the Environment for Europe process will be held in 2016
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SEIS expected to be discussed
Call for indicator‐based assessments
Core set indicators produced and shared in common harmonized formats
harmonized formats
If possible, expanded to all indicators from the Guidelines
Meeting documents available at:
http://www.unece.org/statshome/meetings‐and‐
events/environment‐statistics.html
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Climate change
related statistics
 Set up in November 2011 by the Conference of European Statisticians
European Statisticians
 Mandate: to identify practical steps for development of climate change related statistics, and to explore the data requirements of the producers of greenhouse gas emission inventories
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Greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories are well‐established but other statistics on climate change, including on the social and economic impacts of mitigation and adaptation, are underdeveloped
The environmental, social and economic statistics offered by national statistical offices could be better utilized for climate change analysis
The information needed for fully understanding the causes and impacts of climate change is scattered across organizations
The global nature of climate change calls for wider cooperation among organisations to better respond to the information needs
Climate change
related statistics
 Climate change related statistics refer to those
environmental, social and economic statistics that
measure climate sensitive phenomena
 Scope: Very broadly, the Task Force defines the scope
of climate change related statistics as
– Environmental, social and economic data that measure the human
causes of climate change, the impacts of climate change on human
and natural systems, the efforts of humans to avoid the
consequences as well as their efforts to adapt to these consequences
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 Final report with concrete recommendations and
priorities for national statistical offices – April 2014
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Climate change
related statistics
Consultations and coordination with:
Consultations and coordination with:
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UNFCCC/IPCC
UNCEEA
WMO
WHO
UNEP
European Environment Agency
EU DG Climate
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NGOs (WWF, Carbon Brief)
Researchers (Finnish Env Inst, U of Bologna, FEEM)
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
UNDA project
2012–2013
Title: “Strengthening statistical capacity of countries with economies in transition to assess progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goal 7 on Environmental Sustainability and provide data on environmental vulnerabilities”
Beneficiaries: 12 countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia (EECCA) Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Central Asia (EECCA) —
Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
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UNDA project
2012–2013
3 topics:
• Waste statistics Waste statistics
• Measuring sustainable development • Agri‐environmental statistics 5 workshops: 2 on waste statistics, 2 on measuring SD, 1 on agri‐environmental statistics
3 reports/desk studies
Data
questionnaire
Survey
Workshop
Report
Feedback
Shaping
further work
UNDA project:
Agri-environmental
statistics
Joint UNECE/FAO/Eurostat Workshop 13–15 May 2013, Montenegro + desk study =
• review of the situation with pesticide and fertilizer statistics in the EECCA countries • challenges in collecting and reporting pesticide and fertilizer statistics
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• desk study and recommendations on how to address the challenges
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UNDA project:
follow-up
Requested by countries:
• Further technical assistance on all the topics covered by the project
• Workshops on specific methodological issues (particularly, for waste statistics)
• SEEA implementation: consultations, technical assistance, workshops/trainings
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… in part could be carried out under the next UNDA project
Thank you for your attention
[email protected]
UNECE, Environment statistics
http://www.unece.org/stats/environment.html
UNECE, Sustainable development statistics
http://www.unece.org/stats/sustainable-development.html
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