New Research Guide: Environmental and Climate Change Statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean

Public officials and researchers can find, in one place, information related to the production of environmental statistics, as well as the conceptual, methodological and data resources available for Latin America and the Caribbean. The guide is available at English Y Spanishin an easily accessible format.

The research guide presents a description of environmental statistics and its basic concepts, through global and regional materials. The user will find a wide collection of bibliographic material, produced by the United Nations Statistical Commission, ECLAC and other specialized agencies of the United Nations. For each theme, the main methodologies and databases for calculating environmental and climate change indicators are made available.

A complete collection of resources

The international statistical recommendations are ordered according to the Framework for the Development of Environmental Statistics (FDES 2013), which includes biophysical aspects of the environment and those aspects of the socioeconomic system that directly affect and interact with the environment, such as water, air, climate, energy, biodiversity, land use, forests , coastal areas, marine ecosystems, pollution, solid waste, hazardous events and disasters.

The research guide also makes available a section on institutions and global and regional indicator frameworks that need environmental statistics for their monitoring, such as Sustainable Development Goalsthe Paris Agreement to combat climate change or sendai frameAction for Disaster Risk Reduction.

It also includes a section that presents the resources available in the institutions that produce environmental statistics at the national level in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, especially the National Institutes of Statistics and the Ministries in charge of the Environment and Climate Change.

The research guide contributes not only to socialize knowledge and experiences, but also to generate a critical mass that can discuss the challenges of the production, use and dissemination of environmental statistics through a common conceptual framework.

The other regional collaboration tools available are the Regional Network of Environment and Climate Change Statistics and the website of the Environmental Statistics Unit.