## Compiling Climate Change Indicators - An Accounting Approach

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**Canonical URL:** [Compiling Climate Change Indicators - An Accounting Approach](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/sa/2026/iccisa26-19)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: SA 26.19
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Dates: April 6-10, 2026 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Program details and logistics
- Session No.: SA 26.19
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Date: April 6-10, 2026 (1 week)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Deadline passed

### Qualifications and target audience
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, statistics, or a related field; compiling or supervising work on climate related macroeconomic statistics.
- Target Audience:
  - Officials from national statistics agencies, ministries of finance, planning, or environment, central banks, financial sector supervisory agencies, and other agencies that are responsible for compiling environment and/or climate change related statistics.

### Course description — scope and focus
- The focus of the course is on better understanding the relationship between climate change and economic activity.
- The statistical framework used is the System of Environmental Economic Accounting, which provides the concepts, definitions, and methodology for measuring the relationship between climate change and economic activity.
- Participants will learn about:
  - Physical supply and use tables for energy and air emissions.
  - Indicators that can be compiled from these accounts.
- The course explores the criticality of natural hazards, which significantly impact the broader economy and financial system, affecting both short-term and long-term economic stability through discussions on the role of official statistics.

### Course objectives — competencies on completion
- Provide an overview of the type of data and indicators that can be used to help understand the economic and financial implications of climate change.
- Provide a broad understanding of what an environment and climate change statistics program encompasses and how to develop a national program and close macro-critical data gaps.
- Identify data sources, compilation methods, and uses of key macro-relevant climate-change indicators for effective climate-related policies.

### Additional note
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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/sa/2026/iccisa26-19_