Proposed replacement of the Joint Task Force on Environmental Statistics and Indicators with a Joint Working Group on Environmental Statistics and Indicators

At its twenty-eighth session (1–3 November 2023), the Committee on Environmental Policy took note of the proposal made to convert the Joint Task Force on Environmental Statistics and Indicators into a joint working group and decided to defer its decision until the present session.

The present document provides substantive justification for such a change, as well as confirming that it would not have financial implications.

The Committee is invited to consider the proposal. If the Committee would be in favour of such a change, terms of reference for the new body would be presented to the Committee at its next session, in November 2025.