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:
- delineating the scope of environment statistics and identifying its constituents;
- contributing to the assessment of data requirements, sources, availability and gaps;
- guiding the development of multipurpose data collection processes and databases; and
- assisting in coordination and organization across institutions.
The FDES (Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics) describes the scope and components of environment statistics as measuring:
- The state of the environment
- Our dependence on the environment
- Our impact on it
- Its impact on us (even negative ones)
- How we protect and manage it
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