Environmental statistics

Biennium:

2014-2015

Coordinator

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) of Mexico

Technical Secretariat

Statistics Division of ECLAC

Members

Department of Statistics of Bahamas

Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE) of Chile

Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE) of Colombia

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC) of Costa Rica

Oficina Nacional de Estadística e Información (ONEI) of Cuba

Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN)

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) of Mexico

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo (INEC) of Panama

Oficina Nacional de Estadística (ONE) of Dominican Republic

General Bureau of Statistics of Suriname

Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) of Venezuela

Objectives

General

Promote regional implementation of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) and the development of official systems for basic environmental statistics to support such accounts, with a view to incorporating them into the national statistical systems of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Specifics

Assess the current situation in respect of environmental statistics and SEEA implementation in the countries participating in the project, with a view to developing and strengthening these systems through technical capacity-building.
Promote coordination on environmental statistics, indicators and accounts between institutional stakeholders at the national level.
Strengthen regional cooperation in order to promote the standardization and comparability of common environmental statistics with a view to implementing SEEA in Latin America and the Caribbean.