PARIS21, together with its partners, is committed to building resilient and modern data ecosystems that harness the value of data for transformative climate action. This conference took place from Tuesday, 05 April, to Wednesday, 06 April, and provided insights into the key challenges and opportunities related to climate change data production and use in low capacity countries, and discuss the potential of an integrated data ecosystems approach.

Climate change is an environmental, social, economic and political concern. The PARIS21 2022 Spring Meetings featured a series of virtual events over the course of two days, convening interdisciplinary experts from diverse backgrounds, policy makers, national statistical offices, civil society and academia to share perspectives and best practices, bridge gaps in institutional knowledge and identify ways for collective data-driven climate action.

As part of the event, PARIS21 presented the new scoping paper Envisioning a climate change data ecosystem - A path to co-ordinated climate action and launched the new PARIS21 podcast Climate change: Behind the numbers, including a first episode with Sony Kapoor, CEO of the Nordic Institute for Finance, Technology and Sustainability, on ESG investment and greenwashing.

Read the event summary

Download the scoping paper

The objectives of the meeting were to:

• Understand the need for an integrated data ecosystems approach on climate change and how it can contribute to action in various policy domains and for cross-cutting purposes (Day 1)
• Enhance learning on the reality of the current climate data landscape in fragile and capacity-constrained contexts, and identify ways to develop sustainable climate data ecosystems (Day 2)

Download the agenda

Speakers:

• Fernanda Alcobé, Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development
• Ria Arinda, Statistician, BPS/Statistics Indonesia
• H.E. Ariunzaya Ayush, Minister for Labour and Social Protection of Mongolia
• Carol Coy, Director-General, Statistical Institute of Jamaica
• François Fonteneau, Deputy Head, PARIS21 Secretariat
• Johannes Friedrich, Director of Climate Data, World Resources Institute
• Aniket Ghai, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS)
• Kristine Grimsrud, Senior researcher, Statistics Norway

  Aishath Hassan, Chief Statistician of Maldives Bureau of Statistics
• Sam Joiner, Visual Stories Editor, Financial Times
• Johannes Jütting, Executive Head, PARIS21 Secretariat
• Sony Kapoor, CEO, Nordic Institute for Finance, Technology and Sustainability
• Helena McLeod, Deputy Director, The Global Green Growth Institute
• Tarik Ogbamichael, Consultant, Statistics Norway
• Iván Ojeda, Director General, National Institute of Statistics of Paraguay
• Gabriel Quiros Romero, Deputy Director, Statistics Department, IMF
• Paul Schreyer, Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics & Data Directorate, OECD
• Heidi Schroderus-Fox, Acting High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
• Stefan Schweinfest, Director, UN Statistics Division
• Ian Townsend, Deputy Director for Environment, UK ONS
• Vlad Trusca, Team Lead, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat
• Jason P Williams, Data Manager, Department of Environment, Antigua & Barbuda
• Lavorne Williams, Chief Statistician,  Statistical Office, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Event recordings:

Day 1: Better climate change data for all - The transformative potential of climate change data ecosystems to drive collective action

Day 2: From climate change data to action - The barriers and opportunities of creating sustainable climate change data ecosystems

Presentations:

Download presentation by Vlad Trusca, Team Lead, UNFCCC Secretariat

Download presentation by Catherine Krüger, Inter-regional Adviser, PARIS21

Download presentation by Sam Joiner, Visual Stories Editor, Financial Times

Download presentation by Ria Arinda, Statistician , Statistics Indonesia & Kristine Grimsrud, Senior researcher, Statistics Norway & Tarik Ogbamichael, Consultant, Statistics Norway

Resources:

Platforms:

• Climate Watch platform offering open data, visualizations and analysis on countries' climate progress (World Resources Institute, UNFCCC, Google and more)
• Prototype portal for climate change statistics in the UK (UK Government)
• Climate Change Indicators Dashboard (IMF)

Research:

• Resources on improving climate change-related statistics for national statistical offices (UNECE)
• Case study: Meeting expectations on transparency, and more: how strengthening capacity for climate reporting is benefitting Mauritania and Malawi (IIED)
• Implementing the Paris Agreement: LDC gaps and needs in GHG inventory reporting (IIED)
• LOCOMOTION: European initiative working on designing a new set of Integrated Assessment Models to enable the transition to a low-carbon society (European Environmental Bureau and more)

Impact stories:

• Strengthening measurement of marine litter in Ghana (SDSN TReNDS)
• Tuvalu: Gathering the data to climate-proof coastal infrastructure investments (Green Climate Fund)

Other materials:

• 2022 Report of the Secretary-General on Climate Change Statistics: Global Set and metadata (UNSD)
• Marco para el desarrollo de las estadísticas ambientales (UNSD)

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