ESCAP and its partners have developed, adapted and applied many tools in its program to strengthen environment statistics for addressing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Environment statistics are multidisciplinary and therefore are best developed in collaboration with relevant national and regional stakeholders. These tools include a Diagnostic Tool, and Inventory Template and several self-learning materials.
ESCAP and its partners have developed, adapted and applied many tools in its program to strengthen environment statistics for addressing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Environment statistics are multidisciplinary and therefore are best developed in collaboration with relevant national and regional stakeholders. These tools include a Diagnostic Tool, and Inventory Template and several training modules.
The inventory Template provides a structure for systematically describing statistical activities related to the environment. It does so by listing key elements to be described. It is intended to support inventorying environment statistics at the national and sub-national level.
The FDES provides guidance on a core set of environmental indicators that has proven beneficial to inform policy. It is designed to assist all countries in articulating environment statistics programmes by:
The SEEA, an international statistical standard, provides a coherent and integrated framework for collecting, organizing, analysing, presenting environmental data and relating it to economic and social data. It adheres to the principles of the System of National Accounts (SNA), and expands its scope by:
taking an accounting approach to record the stocks and flows of natural inputs into the economy,
providing standard terminology, definitions, methods and classifications,
adding measures and classifications of:
linking economic activities (producers and consumers) to societal benefits.