## Macro-relevant Environment and Climate Change Statistics

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**Canonical URL:** [Macro-relevant Environment and Climate Change Statistics](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2027/ccshq27-01)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: HQ 27.01
- Location: Washington, D.C., United States
- Dates: January 25, 2027 - February 5, 2027 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Training program overview
- Program title: Macro-relevant Environment and Climate Change Statistics (CCS)
- 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 and qualifications
- Target audience:
  - Officials from national statistics agencies
  - Ministries of finance, planning, or environment
  - Central banks
  - Other agencies responsible for compiling environment and/or climate change related statistics
- 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

### Course description — scope and topics
- 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:
  - Environmental expenditures
  - Taxes and subsidies
  - Natural resource accounts
  - Physical and transition risk indicators
  - Air emission accounts
  - Energy accounts
  - Cross-border aspects of climate change
  - Indicators of sustainable finance
- Methods and format:
  - Series of lectures, workshops, and plenary discussions on country practices
  - Methods for compiling environmental and climate change statistics, including data sources

### Course objectives — participant competencies on completion
- 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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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/hq/2027/ccshq27-01_