Tuesday, March 24, 2009

UNSTATS : Conference Papers

The Learning Center on Environmental-Economic Accounting offered a practical introduction to the statistical link between the economy and the environment.Thispractical introduction provided a general overview of the basic concepts, accounts and the policy relevance of the link between the economy and the environment. more..
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/statcom_09/seminars/environment_eco_acctng/Environment_eco_acctng.html

The seminar, organized by the United Nations Statistics Division and Statistics Norway as the convener of the Oslo Group on Energy Statistics, discussed the need for international recommendations for energy statistics, presented the challenges in developing these recommendations and emphasized the importance of making energy statistics an integral part of official statistics.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/statcom_09/seminars/energy/Energy_2009.html

This seminar, organized by the European Commission, Eurostat, provided an overview of the recent developments and challenges ahead in environment statistics. Special presentation was provided on Geospatial statistics and its use in environmental statistics by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geograficae Estatistica (IBGE) and recent developments in environmental accounts by Statistics Netherlands, (CBS). http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/statcom_09/seminars/environment/Advances_environment_2009.html

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