## Compilation of Macro-relevant Environment and Climate Change Statistics - Advanced

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**Canonical URL:** [Compilation of Macro-relevant Environment and Climate Change Statistics - Advanced](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2024/cmecc-ace24-29)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CE 24.29
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Dates: November 11-22, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Arabic
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
  - 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.
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics; with experience in the compilation of environment and climate change statistics.

### Course description and pedagogical approach
- Administered by: Statistics Department
- Format:
  - Series of lectures, workshops, and plenary discussions on country practices describing methods for compiling environmental and climate change statistics, including data sources.
  - Opportunities for participants to discuss compilation challenges they have encountered and to gain insights into analytical uses of environmental and climate change statistics.
- Learning topics:
  - Sources and methods to develop macroeconomic relevant climate change-related indicators that can inform economic and financial policies.
  - Assessment of global/open-source datasets for compilation purposes.
  - Different approaches and methodologies used to estimate indicators.

### Covered statistics and analytical focus
- Statistics covered include:
  - Environmental revenues and expenditures
  - Natural Resource Accounts
  - Physical and Transition risk indicators
  - Air Emission Accounts
  - Sustainable Finance indicators

### Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Provide an overview of the concepts and classifications used in environmental accounting.
- 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.
- Identify data sources and understand the compilation methods of key macroeconomic relevant environmental and climate change statistics.
- 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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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2024/cmecc-ace24-29_