The Global Webinar on Strengthening Climate Change and Disaster-Related Statistics: Needs, Priorities, and Action: Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
Date: 2023-05-10 - 2023-05-11
Location: Virtual Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya
Indicators: 13.1.1,13.1.2,13.1.3,13.2.1, 13.2.2, 13.3.1, 13.3.2, 13.a.1, 13.b.1
Partners: ESCAP
Topic: Climate Change and Disaster-Related Statistics
Overview
The Global Webinar on Strengthening Climate Change and Disaster-Related Statistics: Needs, Priorities, and Action is part of a series of online webinars being held under the 14th tranche of the United Nations Development Account (DA14) Project “Resilient and agile National Statistical Systems to meet post-COVID-19 data needs to recover better”. The DA14 Project aims to help enhance the resilience and agility of the national statistical systems (NSS) of the 50 beneficiary countries to respond to emerging economic, social and environmental data needs in times of crises and disasters, through the use of innovative data sources, advanced data acquisition methods and modern technologies, while ensuring a path towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This webinar organized under Workstream 2.1 of the DA14 project, which aimed to strengthen national capacities, and increase the availability and policy use of statistics and indicators on climate change and disaster-related statistics.
The Workstream was co-facilitated by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD).
The objectives of this webinar were to: Enhance awareness and understanding in the beneficiary countries of relevant international statistical frameworks and guidelines on climate change and disaster-related statistics; Share experiences, including good practices as well as technical and institutional challenges, on the production and use of climate change and disaster-related statistics between beneficiary countries; Discuss national priorities and plans for improving climate change and disaster-related statistics, and, Share and discuss how countries may further engage in the project.
Before and after the webinar, each participant will be invited to complete a short survey on their level of awareness and knowledge relating to climate change and disaster-related statistics.
Documents
Presentations
Introduction to the DA14 project,
Results of the Pre-webinar Survey,
Paris Agreement and Outcomes of COP27,
Sendai Framework: Generating official statistics on disaster risk reduction,
Looking Ahead – Filling Climate Change and Disaster Data Gaps: ,
UNEP’s Climate Gap Reports (Emissions Gap Report and Adaptation Gap Report),
Implementation of the Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators,
Tanzania’s Experience on Compilation of Climate Change Statistics,
Conference of European Statisticians’ Core Set of Climate Change-Related Indicators and the upcoming Guidance on the Role of NSOs in Achieving National Climate Objectives,
Sendai Framework monitoring and Global Framework for Disaster-Related Statistics,
Introduction to the Disaster-related Statistics Framework (DRSF),
Measuring Hazardous Events and Disasters: Set of core disaster-risk-related indicators,
The GSGF and beyond,
Strategic Framework on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters (SFGIS4D),
Country Example: Zambia,
National Adaptation Planning Processes,
UNEP Climate Services and Early Warning Systems Portfolio,
Importance of Institutional Cooperation and Governance,
Way Forward: Overview of Workstream 2.1 Activities under the DA14 Project,
