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Measuring the connections between environment and gender: the Asia-Pacific experience Expert meeting on Statistics on Gender and the Environment Gemma Van Halderen Afsaneh Yazdani Director Officer in Charge, Population and Social Statistics
Expert meeting on Statistics on Gender and the Environment
Gemma Van Halderen Director Statistics Division Afsaneh Yazdani Officer in Charge, Population and Social Statistics Section, Statistics Division
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific “…the regional development arm of the United Nations for the Asia-Pacific region” One of five Regional Commissions of the United Nations Works closely with other UN programmes and agencies, the Asian Development Bank, NGOs and civil society 53 Member States and 9 Associate Members Two thirds of the world’s population is located in the ESCAP region.
Convening and consensus building Technical support and capacity building Research & analysis
Economic Statistics Social Statistics Environment statistics Governance statistics Population statistics
Five ‘standard’ areas of official statistics
Plus themes
Economic Statistics Social statistics Environment statistics Governance statistics Population statistics
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Number of Statistics 100 458 Basic Set of Environmental Statistics
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and principles of SNA.
economy and environment.
extends the accounting to the measurement of flows of services ecosystems provide and ecosystems capital
SDG14 → ESCAP has globally lead in developing a methodology
“As a multipurpose statistical tool for the development of environment statistics, the FDES is closely related to and supports other systems and frameworks that are frequently used at the national and international levels.”
“As a multipurpose statistical tool for the development of environment statistics, the FDES is closely related to and supports other systems and frameworks that are frequently used at the national and international levels.” The statistics included in components 2, 3, and 6 relevant to SEEA-CF
“As a multipurpose statistical tool for the development of environment statistics, the FDES is closely related to and supports other systems and frameworks that are frequently used at the national and international levels.” The statistics included in component 1, can feed into ecosystem accounts.
“As a multipurpose statistical tool for the development of environment statistics, the FDES is closely related to and supports other systems and frameworks that are frequently used at the national and international levels.” Preliminary correspondence between the environmentally- related SDGs, targets and proposed indicators and the Basic Set of Environment Statistics of FDES 2013 (91 SDG indicators)
Economic Statistics Social statistics Environment statistics Governance statistics Population statistics
ESCAP SD is primarily focusing
capacity building for Accounts
Ocean Water Energy Land Forest Solid waste Air emissions
UN Women’s Regional meeting on Gender Statistics in Climate Change and Disaster Risk (22 April 2019) Held in conjunction with Sixth meeting of the Expert Group on Disaster-related Statistics in Asia and the Pacific (23 – 25 April 2019)
Which comes first?
visibility
widens the audience for gender statistics
have a multiplier effect e.g. to economic statistics
and economic statistics, and more and more environment statistics as they relate to policy priorities such as climate change and disasters
statistical programmes, including CRVS, economic and environment statistical programmes
SDGs, in core set of economic statistics, in core set of population and social statistics
Women, UN Environment and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Convening and consensus building Technical support and capacity building Research & analysis
UN-ESCAP prioritises enablement and empowerment of National Statistical Offices and National Statistical Systems. Asia and the Pacific’s diversity provides a ‘test bed’ for trying new
Do we mainstream gender into environment statistics, or are we mainstreaming environment into gender statistics? UN-ESCAP looks forward to contributing to discussions on the need for a new expert group in Asia and the Pacific on environment statistics to spearhead efforts to mainstream gender into environment statistics
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