Environment and Climate Change Statistics

FDES Sub-component 2.1 Mineral Resources covers statistics related to the environmental issue of the depletion of mineral resources. The statistics on the destruction of the environment related to the extraction of minerals are included in Sub... Read More

This sub-component of the FDES 2013 is focused on energy resources and their use. It covers statistics related to the environmental issue of the depletion of energy resources and the use of renewable resources which can ease the stress on non... Read More

International Recommendations for Water Statistics (IRWS) provides coherent principles, concepts and definitions for the collection and compilation of water statistics on a comparable basis. IRWS constitutes the first publication of international... Read More

The FDES 2013 covers issues and aspects of the environment that are relevant for analysis, policy and decision making. It is designed to assist all countries in the formulation of environment statistics programmes by: (i) delineating the scope of... Read More

This report details the metadata for indicators in the area of environment statistics. Read More

The report complements another publication, Concepts and Methods of Environment Statistics: Human Settlements Statistics. Together, the reports cover the whole field of environment statistics as delimited by FDES. By applying the FDES structure and... Read More

At its twenty-third session, the Statistical Commission of the United Nations requested that a technical manual for the compilation of selected high-priority statistics in the areas of human settlements and natural resources be prepared by the... Read More

The publication of the Handbook is the first attempt to address some of the existing methodological gaps in the field of environment statistics. It should be a useful guide to statisticians, environment experts, and government policy makers in their... Read More