Saint Kitts and Nevis: National workshop on generating climate change and disasters indicators for policy decision-making

22 Jun 2022 | Event

Work area(s)

Statistics

Topic(s)

Disasters Environmental statistics Climate change 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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Event information

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

Date

22 - 24 Jun 2022, 11:45

Event type

Meetings and technical symposiums

Address

Saint Kitts y Nevis / Saint Kitts and Nevis
Plataforma de conexión / Connection platform: ZOOM
Presencial y virtual/Face-to-face and virtual (Hora/Time: 09:00 - 15:30 Saint Kitts and Nevis)
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Background

The Caribbean region is acutely threatened by climate change, particularly the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Saint Kitts and Nevis is 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 and the Subregional Headquarter 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
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 Kitts and Nevis
  3. Follow up steps to build further selected climate change and disasters indicators are agreed to with the national focal points from the Department of Statistics and the Ministry of Environment and Cooperatives.

 

Programme of work

22 June 2022

  • Inaugural session and introduction to the workshop

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    Inaugural session and introduction to the workshop

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

    ▪ Carlton Phipps, Department of Statistics, Ministry of Sustainable Development

    ▪ June Hughes, Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Cooperatives

    ▪ Faustina Wiggins, CARICOM Secretariat

    ▪ Chamberlain Emmanuel, Environmental Sustainability Division, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)

    ▪ Reena Shah, UNSD, Environment Statistics Section

    ▪ Abdullahi Abdulkadri, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, ECLAC

    Presentation(s)

  • 1.- Environment, climate change and disasters indicators for Saint Kitts and Nevis: needs and priorities

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    1.- Environment, climate change and disasters indicators for Saint Kitts and Nevis: needs and priorities
    Presentation(s)

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

      Derionne Edmeade, Environmental Education Officer, Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Cooperatives

      File

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

      Iskuhi Mkrtchyan, ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean and Participants

  • 2. Global and regional enabling frameworks and strategies

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    2. Global and regional enabling frameworks and strategies
    Presentation(s)

    • 2.1 Regional work on environment statistics as a guiding force to improve availability of climate change and disasters statistics and indicators

      Faustina Wiggins, CARICOM Secretariat

      File

    • 2.2 Regional strategy to strengthen capacity development for environment and climate change statistics in the Caribbean

      Gale Archibald, OECS

      File

    • 2.3 Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators: a tool to identify multi-purpose indicators on climate change

      Reena Shah, UNSD

      File

    • 2.4 The Escazú Agreement: a pathway to developing an Environmental Information System (EIS)

      David Barrio, ECLAC

      File

    •    » Q&A Session

      Francisco Jiménez, ECLAC

    • 2.5 Dynamic: Review the Global Set of Climate Change Indicators and select priority indicators for the country, All participants by group

      Iskuhi Mkrtchyan, ECLAC

    • 2.6 Choosing the indicator to be built during the workshop

      Iskuhi Mkrtchyan, ECLAC

    • Conclusion of the day, homework and what to expect for day | End of day 1

      Georgina Alcantar and Abdullahi Abdulkadri, ECLAC

23 June 2022

  • 3. Recap from day 1 and introduction to day 2

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    3. Recap from day 1 and introduction to day 2

    Facilitator: Karina Cázarez, ECLAC

    Presentation(s)

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

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    4. How to produce environment, climate change and disaster statistics and indicators?
    Presentation(s)

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

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    5. Building selected environment climate change and disasters indicators with national data
    Presentation(s)

    • 5.1 Instructions for group work

      Karina Cázarez, ECLAC

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

      Participants

    • Insights from the working groups

    • Conclusions of the day and what to expect for day 3 | End of day 2

      Karina Cázarez and Abdullahi Abdulkadri. ECLAC

24 June 2022

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

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    6. Recap from day 2 and introduction to day 3
    Presentation(s)

    • Welcome to day 3 + Slido

      Analía Pérez and Karina Cázarez, ECLAC

  • 7. Presentation of group work results: indicators and methodological sheets

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    7. Presentation of group work results: indicators and methodological sheets
    Presentation(s)

    • All groups present their indicators and methodological sheets

    • Remaining groups present their indicators and methodological sheets and receive feedback from the audience and the ECLAC team

  • 8. Towards an environmental information system in Saint Kitts and Nevis

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    8. Towards an environmental information system in Saint Kitts and Nevis
    Presentation(s)

  • Closing remarks

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    Closing remarks

    ▪ Carlton Phipps, Director, Department of Statistics, Ministry of Sustainable Development 

    ▪ June Hughes, Director, Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Cooperatives

    ▪ Georgina Alcantar, ECLAC Statistics Divis

    Presentation(s)

    • End of the workshop

      Abdullahi Abdulkadri and Georgina Alcantar, ECLAC

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