Regional Workshop on an Accounting Approach to Climate Change and Biodiversity for Central Asia and the Caucasus

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP), with the support of the Office of the Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Policy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of the Government of Japan, and in collaboration with the National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic are organizing the Regional Workshop on Accounting Approach to Climate Change and Biodiversity for Central Asia and the Caucasus. The workshop will be held in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, from 9 to 12 September 2024. The workshop will be conducted in English, with Russian interpretation. 

The regional workshop is an opportunity for participants to increase their technical knowledge of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) through exercises,  country examples and discussions focusing on accounts relevant to climate change and biodiversity including accounts on energy, air emission, carbon, ecosystem extent and ecosystem services. Participants will learn about the relevance of environmental economic accounts to climate change and biodiversity policies, and how SEEA can support measuring progress towards achieving the targets of national policies and international agreements including the Sustainable Development Goals, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement. Institutional mechanisms, data governance, data sources and dissemination approaches will also be introduced.