16 September 2022

UNECE Expert Forum for Producers and Users of Climate Change-Related Statistics
29-30 September 2022, Geneva, Switzerland (hybrid), Palais des Nations

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Zoom connection will be sent to registered participants before the meeting. Updates and meeting
documents will be posted on the meeting website: https://unece.org/statistics/events/EFCCRS2022

Thursday, 29 September 2022

Session 1: Setting the scene
Chair: Arthur Denneman, Statistics Netherlands, Chair of the UNECE Steering Group on Climate Change-
Related Statistics
09:30-11:30 in English, French and Russian; 11:30-13:00 English only
Time Item
09:30 - 09:35 Welcome and opening (Arthur Denneman, Steering Group Chair, and UNECE)
Adoption of the agenda and other practical information (Arthur Denneman, Steering
09:35 - 09:40
Group Chair and Malgorzata Cwiek, UNECE)
Keynote speech by Mr. Fabio Massimo Natalucci, the Deputy Director of the Monetary
09:40 - 10:10
and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund
10:10 - 10:20 Questions and discussion
Report on status of work of the Steering Group and the Task Force on the role of NSOs
10:20 - 10:40
in achieving national climate objectives (Arthur Denneman, Steering Group Chair)
Recent developments concerning data needs related to the Paris Agreement and its
10:40 - 11:00
Work Programme (Lornaliza Kogler, UNFCCC)
Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators (Reena Shah, United Nations
11:00 - 11:20
Statistics Division, UNSD)
11:20 - 11:30 Questions and discussion
11:30 - 11:50 Break
Towards integrated, inclusive and sustainable climate change data ecosystems
11:50 - 12:10
(Catherine Krüger, PARIS21) – Working paper 1
12:10 - 12:30 European Green Deal in the Netherlands (Thom Werkhoven, Statistics Netherlands)
Irish approach to data stewardship in the environment domain (Paul Morrin, Central
12:30 - 12:50
Statistics Office, Ireland) – Working paper 2
12:50 - 13:00 Questions and discussion
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
Session 2: Progress and challenges in measuring climate change vulnerability and adaptation
Session co-chairs: Giovanna Tagliacozzo (ISTAT) and Christiana Photiadou (European Environment Agency)
14:30-16:30 in English, French and Russian; and 16:30-18:00 English only
Time Item
14:30 - 14:40 Introduction to the session (Session Chair)
Recent methodological developments in measuring climate change vulnerability and
14:40 - 15:00
adaptation (Emil Ivanov, UNSD)
 Adaptation reporting and indicators linked to the EU Mission on Adaptation (Christiana
15:00 - 15:20
Photiadou, EEA)
15:20 - 15:30 Questions and discussion
Producing national and sub-national indicators on climate-related natural hazards for
15:30 - 15:50
the world (Mikael Maes, OECD)
Exploration of innovative data collection methods to bridge data gaps for assessing
15:50 - 16:10 extreme events and their impact (Claire Ransom, World Meteorological Organization,
WMO)
16:10 - 16:30 Break
DA12 Project: Climate Change and Disaster Statistics in the Caribbean (Georgina
16:30 - 16:50
Alcantar, ECLAC) - Working paper 4
Overview of the country case studies on measuring adaptation (Giovanna Tagliacozzo,
16:50 - 17:10
ISTAT)
Methods for assessing adaptation to climate change activities focused on urban green
17:10 - 17:30 infrastructure (Anna Romańczak and Maciej Sadowski, Institute of Environmental
Protection – National Research Institute, Poland) – Case study
17:30 - 18:00 Questions and discussion

Friday, 30 September 2022

Session 3: New frontiers in climate change-related statistics
Session co-chairs: Pouya Taghavi-Moharamli and Roberta Quadrelli (International Energy Agency, IEA) and
Rob Smith (Midsummer Analytics)
09:30-11:30 and 15:30-16:35 in English, French and Russian; 11:30-15:30 English only
Time Item
09:30 - 09:40 Introduction to the session (Session Chair)
Sub-session 1: Innovative approaches for addressing data gaps in producing climate
change-related data and indicators
Use of administrative microdata for climate-related statistics (Gerry Brady, CSO Ireland)
09:40 - 10:00
– Working paper 5
Georgia's 2030 Climate Change Strategy, related indicators and statistics (Irakli
10:00 - 10:20
Apkhaidze, GEOSTAT)
Production of missing variables for climate changes reporting in Montenegro (Natasa
10:20 - 10:40
Vojinovic, MONSTAT)
Examining the connections between climate change and gender equality: filling data
10:40 - 11:00 gaps through geospatial and survey data integration (Sara Duerto Valero and Sneha Kaul,
UN Women)
11:00 - 11:20 Break
Addressing gaps in data for energy-related climate indicators: experience from IEA’s
11:20 - 11:40
regional programmes (EU4Energy and Africa) (IEA)
11:40 - 12:05 Questions and discussion
Sub-session 2: International frameworks and efforts for enhancing the policy relevance
of climate change-related statistics
Nature-based solutions and SEEA (Carl Obst, UNSD consultant, Institute for Development
12:05 - 12:25
of Environmental-Economic Accounting)
The Climate Actions and Policies Index: A composite indicator approach to measuring
12:25 - 12:45
governments’ climate action (Daniel Nachtigall, OECD)
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch break
14:15 - 14:35 Linking climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (Claire Ransom, WMO)
14:35 - 14:50 Questions and discussion

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 Sub-session 3: Enhancing the timeliness and granularity of climate change-related
statistics
Review on climate change statistics in Europe and quarterly estimates of GHG accounts
14:50 - 15:20
(Stephan Moll, Eurostat)
15:20 - 15:40 Quarterly greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand (Adam Tipper, New Zealand)
15:40 - 16:15 Questions and discussion
16:15 - 16:35 Break
Session 4: Conclusions
Chair: Arthur Denneman, Statistics Netherlands, Chair of the UNECE Steering Group
16:35-17:30 in English, French and Russian
Time Item
16:35 - 17:20 Adoption of conclusions and recommendations from all sessions
17:20 - 17:30 Closing of the Expert Forum by the Steering Group Chair