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  "title": "Macro-relevant Environment and Climate Change Statistics",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, statistics, or a related field; working or intending to work in the compilation of environmental and climate change statistics.",
  "publishDate": "2026-05-27",
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      "heading": "Training program overview",
      "content": "- Program title: Macro-relevant Environment and Climate Change Statistics (CCS)\n- Session No.: HQ 27.01\n- Location: Washington, D.C., United States\n- Date: January 25, 2027 - February 5, 2027 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Status: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Officials from national statistics agencies\n  - Ministries of finance, planning, or environment\n  - Central banks\n  - Other agencies responsible for compiling environment and/or climate change related statistics\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, statistics, or a related field\n  - Working or intending to work in the compilation of environmental and climate change statistics"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and topics",
      "content": "- Purpose: Provide a comprehensive understanding of key macroeconomic indicators related to climate change essential for informing economic and financial policies\n- Emphasis: Compilation of accurate and timely data based on internationally agreed macroeconomic statistical standards to support fiscal, monetary, financial, and external sector policies\n- Topics covered:\n  - Environmental expenditures\n  - Taxes and subsidies\n  - Natural resource accounts\n  - Physical and transition risk indicators\n  - Air emission accounts\n  - Energy accounts\n  - Cross-border aspects of climate change\n  - Indicators of sustainable finance\n- Methods and format:\n  - Series of lectures, workshops, and plenary discussions on country practices\n  - Methods for compiling environmental and climate change statistics, including data sources"
    },
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      "heading": "Course objectives — participant competencies on completion",
      "content": "- Provide an overview of the concepts and classifications used in environmental accounting\n- Provide an overview of the data and indicators that can be used to analyze economic and financial implications of climate change\n- Identify data sources and apply the compilation methods of key macro-relevant environmental and climate change statistics\n- Describe the crucial role of climate financing in climate change discussions\n- Explore how climate change indicators can help develop economic policies to address climate change"
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    "Session No.: HQ 27.01",
    "Location: Washington, D.C., United States",
    "Date: January 25, 2027 - February 5, 2027 (2 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Target audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Purpose: Provide a comprehensive understanding of key macroeconomic indicators related to climate change essential for informing economic and financial policies",
    "Emphasis: Compilation of accurate and timely data based on internationally agreed macroeconomic statistical standards to support fiscal, monetary, financial, and external sector policies",
    "Topics covered:",
    "Methods and format:",
    "Provide an overview of the concepts and classifications used in environmental accounting",
    "Provide an overview of the data and indicators that can be used to analyze economic and financial implications of climate change",
    "Identify data sources and apply the compilation methods of key macro-relevant environmental and climate change statistics",
    "Describe the crucial role of climate financing in climate change discussions",
    "Explore how climate change indicators can help develop economic policies to address climate change"
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