Saint Vincent and The Grenadines: National workshop on generating climate change and disasters indicators for policy decision-making

27 Jun 2022 | Event

Work area(s)

Statistics

Topic(s)

Disasters Environmental statistics Climate change 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The Caribbean region is acutely threatened by climate change, particularly the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Saint Vincent and The Grenadines are no exception. Availability of quality statistics and indicators are crucial to effectively respond to the effects of climate change and build resilience.

Event information

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Date

27 - 29 Jun 2022, 07:30 - 12:00

Event type

Meetings and technical symposiums

Address

San Vicente y Las Granadinas / Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
Plataforma de conexión / Connection platform: ZOOM
Presencial y virtual/Face-to-face and virtual (Hora/Time: 11:30 - 16:00 Saint Vincent and The Grenadines)
Background

The Caribbean region is acutely threatened by climate change, particularly the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Saint Vincent and The Grenadines are no exception. The country is situated in the tropical cyclone belts and is directly exposed to the forces of the oceans. And as a small geographical area, disasters might affect vast proportions of the country.

Availability of quality statistics and indicators are crucial to effectively respond to the effects of climate change and build resilience.

Against this backdrop, the ECLAC´s Statistics Division, Sub regional Office for the Caribbean, in collaboration with the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, are joining forces to enhance the production and use of key indicators and metrics to monitor and adapt to the effects of climate change and strengthen Environmental Information Systems (EIS). These efforts, supported by the Development Account of the United Nations, aim to boost the environmental pillar of the 2030 Agenda and improve policy coherence in the implementation of the Escazú Agreement, the Revised St. George´s Declaration (SGD 2040), the SAMOA Pathway, the Paris Agreement, and the Sendai Framework.

Objectives
  1. Train the participants to build selected environment, climate change and disaster indicators and its metadata.
  2. Identify data and capacity gaps to develop an Environmental Information System (EIS) and build a regional resilience platform.
  3. Have a better understanding of how geospatial data can enhance the use of environment, climate change and disaster indicators for effective decision making./li>
Expected outcomes
  1. At least five prioritized climate change and disasters indicator and its metadata are available at the end of the workshop.
  2. A selection of prioritized indicators from the Global Set of Climate Change Indicators are identified for Saint Vincent and The Grenadines.
  3. Follow up steps to build further selected climate change and disasters indicators are agreed with the national focal points from the Statistical Office and the Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Information Technology.

 

Programme of work

27 June 2022

  • Inaugural session and introduction to the workshop

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    Facilitator: Georgina Alcantar, ECLAC Statistics Division, Environmental Statistics and Climate Change Unit

     ▪ Jamal Byron, Statistical Office, Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Information Technology

     ▪ Yasa Belmar, Sustainable Development Unit, Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Sustainable Development and Culture

     ▪ Faustina Wiggins, Project Officer, CARICOM Secretariat

     ▪ Chamberlain Emmanuel, Head of Environmental Sustainability Division, OECS

     ▪ Reena Shah, Chief, Environment Statistics Section, UNSD

     ▪ Rolando Ocampo, Director, Statistics Division, ECLAC

    Presentation(s)

  • 1. Environment, climate change and disasters indicators for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Needs and priorities

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    Presentation(s)

    • 1.1 National policies and plans where environment, climate change and disaster indicators are required

      Yasa Belmar, Sustainable Development Unit, Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Sustainable Development and Culture

      File

    • 1.2 Group dynamic: demand and priorities of indicators along the policy-making cycle

      Participants

  • 2. Global and regional enabling frameworks and strategies for national indicators

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    Presentation(s)

28 June 2022

  • 2. Global and regional enabling frameworks and strategies for national indicators (cont.)

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    Facilitator: Karina Cázarez, ECLAC

    Presentation(s)

  • 3. What is needed to produce environment, climate change and disaster statistics and indicators?

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    Presentation(s)

  • 4. How to produce environment, climate change and disaster statistics and indicators?

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    Presentation(s)

  • 5. Building selected environment climate change and disasters indicators with national data

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    Karina Cázarez, ECLAC

    5.1 Instructions for group work

    5.2 Group work: building selected climate change and disasters indicators and their methodological sheets. Participantes

    Insights from the working groups

    Karina Cázarez, ECLAC

    Conclusions of the day and what to expect for day 3

    Abdullahi Olabode Abdulkadri

    End of day 2. Abdullahi Olabode Abdulkadri

     

29 June 2022

  • 6. Recap from day 2 and introduction to day 3

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    Facilitator: Alda Díaz, ECLAC

    Analía Pérez and Karina Cázarez, ECLAC

    Welcome to day 3 + interactive session with Slido

  • 7. Towards an environmental information system in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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    Karina Cázarez, ECLAC

    7.1 Instructions for group work

    Participants

    7.2 Group work: dissemination and sustainability of the new indicators: challenges & potential solutions

    Presentation(s)

  • Closing remarks

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     ▪ Jamal Byron, Statistical Office, Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Information Technology

     ▪ Yasa Belmar, Sustainable Development Unit, Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Sustainable Development and Culture

     ▪ Georgina Alcantar, ECLAC

    Abdullahi Olabode Abdulkadri and Georgina Alcantar, ECLAC           

    End of the workshop

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