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  "title": "Compilation of Macro-relevant Environment and Climate Change Statistics - Advanced",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; with experience in the compilation of environment and climate change statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2024-12-17",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Officials from National Statistics Agencies, Ministries of Finance, Planning and Environment, Central Banks and other agencies, who are responsible for compiling environment and/or climate change related indicators.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; with experience in the compilation of environment and climate change statistics."
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    {
      "heading": "Course description and pedagogical approach",
      "content": "- Administered by: Statistics Department\n- Format:\n  - Series of lectures, workshops, and plenary discussions on country practices describing methods for compiling environmental and climate change statistics, including data sources.\n  - Opportunities for participants to discuss compilation challenges they have encountered and to gain insights into analytical uses of environmental and climate change statistics.\n- Learning topics:\n  - Sources and methods to develop macroeconomic relevant climate change-related indicators that can inform economic and financial policies.\n  - Assessment of global/open-source datasets for compilation purposes.\n  - Different approaches and methodologies used to estimate indicators."
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    {
      "heading": "Covered statistics and analytical focus",
      "content": "- Statistics covered include:\n  - Environmental revenues and expenditures\n  - Natural Resource Accounts\n  - Physical and Transition risk indicators\n  - Air Emission Accounts\n  - Sustainable Finance indicators"
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Provide an overview of the concepts and classifications used in environmental accounting.\n- Provide an overview of the data and type of indicators that can be used to help understand the economic and financial implications of climate change.\n- Identify data sources and understand the compilation methods of key macroeconomic relevant environmental and climate change statistics.\n- Identify the ways in which these indicators can be used to develop economic policies aimed to mitigate and/or adapt to climate change."
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    "Provide an overview of the data and type of indicators that can be used to help understand the economic and financial implications of climate change.",
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