Statistics

Climate change is a central challenge of sustainable development, and tackling it requires data and statistics from a whole range of domains; not only in the realm of climate and emissions measurements themselves, but data to measure drivers, impacts and adaptation efforts. Sound figures are essential for countries as they design environmental policies and track their effectiveness, to ensure they are making progress towards achieving the international sustainability goals to which they have committed.

Through our work on statistics related to the environment and climate change, UNECE helps countries to compile reliable, comparable statistics that capture all these aspects. The Conference of European Statisticians established a Steering Group to guide our work on climate change-related statistics. Annual expert forums bring together not only producers but also users of climate change-related statistics, helping statisticians to gather and respond to the needs of those who actually use the information. Our methodological work helps improve climate change-related statistics and indicators and to measure hazardous events and disasters.

National statistical offices play an essential and increasing role in national climate change information systems. UNECE efforts are helping to give this area a more prominent place in the agendas and budgets of official statistics, with the goal of making official statistics better serve the needs of climate change analysis and policy.