Global Webinar on Geospatial and Other Data Sources for Environment Statistics: Assessing the Impact of the Economy on the Environment
Date: 2023-03-21 - 2023-03-23
Location: Virtual Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya
Indicators: 6.6.1, 14.1.1(a), 8.4.2, 12.2.2
Partners: UNODC
Topic: Geospatial and Other Data Sources for Environment Statistics
Overview
The webinar is organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in collaboration with the UN Regional Commissions, the UN Statistics Division, as well as other international and national organizations.
The goal of the webinar is to increase the knowledge of the beneficiary countries and other invited countries about statistics derived from geospatial and other data sources to assess the impact of the economy on the environment.
The webinar consists of the following topics: Impact of anthropogenic and natural processes on freshwater and marine ecosystems Impact of illegal economies on the environment: monitoring of illegal mineral mining Domestic Material Consumption as an indicator of economic pressure on the environment
Documents
Presentations
Introduction of the Statistics and Data Project “Resilient and agile National Statistical Systems to meet post-COVID-19 data needs to recover better” under the 14th tranche of the United Nations Development Account,
Results of the Pre-Webinar Survey,
Country-owned official statistics as a source for water statistics,
The Role of Freshwater Ecosystems in Accelerating the Implementation of Goal 6,
Earth Observations for Marine Ecosystem Monitoring,
Marine Monitoring Needs and Challenges in a Country Example (Uruguay),
In-situ data collection for coastal satellite remote sensing products in Uruguay,
Response Framework on Illegal Mining,
Measuring Illicit Financial Flows in the Mining Sector (the SDG Framework, Bilateral Trade Asymmetries and its Link to Remote Sensing),
Remote Sensing for Monitoring Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (the Central African Republic),
Mining Detection and Uptake of the Data, Senegal,
Detection of Mining and its Impact on the Environment Colombia,
Monitoring of Alluvial Gold Mining and the Use of its Data Guyana,
Geospatial Data Integration for Monitoring Mining and the Impact on the Environment in Guyana,
Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) as an important policy indicator,
Eurostat guidelines and questionnaires,
Available tools to support the calculation of DMC at the country level: General overview,
EW-MFA Compiler,
The Global MFA Manual the Use of Natural Resources in the Economy (A Global Manual on Economy Wide Material Flow Accounting),
Online course on Domestic Extraction for EW-MFA,
SDG indicator 8.4.2/12.2.2 and UNEP Questionnaire on EW-MFA for these SDG Indicators,
Global Estimation Provided for Countries (The basis for Domestic Material Consumption accounts in the Global MFA Database),
Validating the Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts (EW-MFA) in Namibia,
Importance of Institutional Cooperation and Governance,
