Training Program

Officials from national statistics agencies, ministries of finance, planning and environment, central banks, and other agencies, who are responsible for compiling and/or using environment or climate change related indicators.

Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics.

This five-day course, conducted by the Statistics Department, familiarizes participants with key climate change related indicators that can be developed to better inform economic and financial policies. The statistics covered include Environmental revenues and expenditures, Natural Resource Accounts, Physical and Transition risk indicators, Air Emission Accounts and indicators of Sustainable Finance. The course consists of a series of lectures giving overview of methods for compiling climate change-related indicators, and insights into the analytical uses of the climate change-related indicators.