1 Session 2: Climate change related statistics (other than those related to GHG inventories) Second Meeting on Climate Change Related Statistics For Producers and Users 8-9 October 2013 UNECE Geneva, Switzerland Dr. Julie L. Hass ( Division for Development Cooperation Statistics Norway 1

Definition of Scope of CC related statistics Include environmental, social and economic data that measure… Greenhouse gas emissions Drivers: human caused sources and causes of emissions 2

Definition of Scope of CC related statistics Mitigation: efforts of humans to avoid the consequences 3

Definition of Scope of CC related statistics Adaptation: efforts to adapt to these consequences 4

5 Consider what will be needed in the future… Impacts

Scope of CC related statistics Impacts: on human and natural systems 6

7 Health statistics Re-occurrence of diseases no longer in Europe (malaria) New diseases Changes in current trends “Extreme events” (heat waves, storms, etc.)

8 Water And resulting land use land cover changes, and soil degradation. … or the lack of it

9 Crop production patterns

10 Jobs… “Green Jobs”

11 Population / Demographics / Migration Types of “households”

12 Currently: Production perspective Future:Consumption perspective Objective: The consumer’s responsibility for emissions Example: “CO 2 neutral travel” Pieces of the puzzle: National accounts+ Environmental Accounts Input – output tables CO2 CONTENT OF GERMAN IMPORTS AND EXPORTS 2000 – T-shirts, jeans and blouses: there’s a lot of water in our clothes

13 “Eco-Industries” Environmental Goods and Services Current classifications - goods and services, employment, consumption - make these things difficult to find –Need to consider making these easier to identify by revising classifications?

Challenges Need to be able to connect/combine different data sets Physical flow accounts – combined (NAMEA-type) see SEEA – CF

How to connect other data sets? Is this the role of the NSOs? 15

Georeferenced data / mapping 16

Recommendations on CC related statistics 4. NSOs must improve the contribution of official statistics to climate change analysis – facilitate access to the existing information. Bring together and disseminate CC related statistics Cooperate with scientific organizations in the dissemination Facilitate access to microdata 17

Recommendations on CC related statistics 5. The usefulness of the existing environmental, social and economic statistics for climate change analysis should be improved. Review statistical programs and data collections from the view of the data needs for climate change analysis – can the data be used for measuring CC related issues Lack of coherence among data sets and difficulties in matching data from different statistical domains. Link socio- economic data sets with climate observations. Geo-referencing all relevant data – for spatial analysis New geographical areas – not only administrative areas Provide detailed data for analysis – food production, water use, health and diseases, tourism, population, pop. growth 18

Recommendations on CC related statistics 6. NSOs should review the key data needs of climate policy makers and analysts in their country and consider development of new statistics. To analyze drivers, develop economic information to climate change related issues, such as environmental economic (SEEA) accounts. Contribute to efforts to monitor biodiversity and ecosystems Develop data on the use of economic instruments in mitigation efforts – carbon taxes, tradable permits, subsidies Develop statistics and indicators for adaptation and adaptive capacity – resilience, risks and vulnerability of population groups and preparedness to withstand adverse impacts of CC 19

20 NSS/NSO Climate Change Official Statistics We need to work on connecting the dots! Revised from original