This page presents resources and tools on statistics for climate action developed by the United Nations regional commissions and United Nations Statistics Division with inputs from numerous countries and international organizations. You can find more details on the web pages of respective organizations.
The list can be downloaded here. For more information about the UNECE work on climate change-related statistics, click here.
Sets of indicators and statistics and their implementation guidelines
- Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators (2022)
- Climate Change Statistics and Indicators Self-Assessment Tool (CISAT) (2023)
- Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators: Implementation Guidelines (2023)
- UNECE Set of Core Climate Change-Related Indicators and Statistics Using SEEA (2021) and its Implementation Guidelines (2021)
- UNECE Set of Core Disaster-Related Statistics and Indicators (2023)
- UNESCWA Climate Change-Related Statistics in the Arab Region: A Proposed Set of Indicators. Special Issue of the Compendium of Environment Statistics in the Arab Region (2017)
Guidance and recommendations
- UNECE Guidance on the role of national statistical offices in achieving national climate objectives (draft) with contribution by ECLAC, ESCAP and United Nations Statistics Division (2023)
- UNECE Recommendations on the role of official statistics in measuring hazardous events and disasters and supporting the reporting on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2020)
- UNECE Recommendations on Climate Change-Related Statistics (2014) and summary leaflet; also available in Russian
- International Recommendations for Energy Statistics (2018)
Reports and studies
- ESCAP Theme Study The race to net zero: accelerating climate action in Asia and the Pacific (2023)
- UNECE Climate Change-Related Statistics in Practice 2023, 2022 and 2021
- UNECE In-depth review on the role of the statistical community in climate action (2020)
- ECLAC Regional Climate Change Profile
Statistical frameworks
- ESCAP Disaster-related Statistics Framework
- Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics
- System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
Upcoming meetings
- UNECE Expert Forum for Producers and Users of Climate Change-Related Statistics (29-30 August 2024, Geneva)
- Expert Forum for Producers and Users of Disaster-Related Statistics (Q3 2024, Addis Ababa)
