Environmental Indicators and Statistics - MOE Perspective

1. Environmental Indicators and Statistics - MOE Perspective Shaikha Darwish Saad /Dr.Sayed Buchari Statistical Researcher Ministry of Environment

2. Content 1- About Ministry of Environment 2-MOE Vision & Message 3-Stratigic goals for MOE 4- Reporting obligations (local and international) 5-Role of environmental indicators 6-The needed of information for Ministry of Environment 7. Expectations of environmental statistics and the statistics authority? How environmental statistics support the MOE work

3. 1- About Ministry of Environment The Ministry of Environment is striving to achieve several goals, most importantly, protecting the environment through inclusive and sustainable growth for future generation to achieve the vision of 2030. Reaching the vision would be through wildlife conservation, preparing and proposing laws, projects and suitable solutions for all environmental issues, implementing them by training Qatari nationals in implementation of environmental protocols, as well as environmental .awareness Civil and governmental organizations should coordinate all efforts; cooperate with regions and countries by ratification of environmental agreements and protocols for the purpose of protecting environments.

4. 2- Ministry of Environment Vision & Message Our Vision: Preserve our environment and preserve and grow our resources, accessing to a sustainable environment. The MOE Message: MOE is a Government Foundation seeks to protect the country environment, development & sustainability of living & non-living natural resources, quality assurance, environmental health, through the creation of environmental awareness and propose environmental legislation, policies and national capacity-building and in accordance with the principles of community partnership and sustainable development, best practices and international standards to achieve excellence locally and leading the state of Qatar globally in the environmental field.

5. 3-Stratigic goals for MOE • 1. Balance between the social and economic development needs and protecting the environment. • 2. Preserving and protecting the environment, including air, land, water and biological diversity • 3. Ensure the quality of environmental health and safety • 4. Improve the institutional effectiveness and performance • 5. Propose and develop policies and legislations to protect the environment • 6. Enhance awareness and environmental culture 7. Support and activate the national, regional and international cooperation

6. 4- Reporting obligations (local and international) • 1- International Reporting: • …UNEP, FAO, UNSC, etc. • 2- Local Reporting: • MOE has own procedures were information is reported backs to MOE by various stakeholders in a country. MOE has a process for regularly monitoring and inspecting facilities to check against any environmental violations.

7. 6- The needed of information for Ministry of Environment The importance of accurate and timely environmental information is of increasing importance. Two major challenges: 1-Getting environmental data from different stakeholders onto one common platform & disseminating/sharing the data amongst us • 2- Converting data to information to be easier to understand. • MOE is currently engaged in various projects that provide data on quality of Ambient air, Marine Environment, Ionic Radiation, Hydrogeology and hydrometeorology etc

8. 7- Expectations of environmental statistics and the statistics authority? How environmental statistics support the MOE work We have to have mutual understanding between two organizations in sharing data. We need to identify significant environment data & define a mechanism to find the data. Environmental data itself can't be seen in isolation .To see the effect of environmental data on a community we need to correlate this with social, economic data.

9. QSA should help us in deriving meaningful statistics out of our data to help decision support & decision making. MOE QSA Other Agencies QSA should help us in perceiving our data in light of other relevant data/statistics.

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