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Environmental monitoring and information systems/SEIS. Working Group on Environmental Governance and Climate Change 3 rd Meeting, 11-12 June, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Shared Environmental Information. To support national and international p olicy development. Content. National SoE.
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Environmental monitoring and information systems/SEIS Working Group on Environmental Governance and Climate Change 3rdMeeting, 11-12 June, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Shared Environmental Information To support national and international policy development Content National SoE Institutional cooperation MEAs To meet SEIS principles Regional, global assessments Infrastructure SDGs Post 2015 agenda
Shared Environmental Information To support national and international policy development Content National SoE Institutional cooperation MEAs To meet SEIS principles Regional, global assessments Infrastructure SDGs Post 2015 agenda
Shared Environmental Information To support national and international policy development Content National SoE Institutional cooperation MEAs To meet SEIS principles Regional, global assessments Infrastructure SDGs Post 2015 agenda
Shared Environmental Information in Pan-Europe Today Future assessments Commoncomponents MEAs SDGs Post 2015 indicators
Work in Central Asia regarding SEIS • UNECE/EEA & partners assistance to establish national SEIS - two UNECE intergovernmental bodies: • Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment and • Management of monitoring networks • Development of environmental information systems • Preparation and application of SoE reports • Preparation and application of other assessment methodologies • Joint Task Force on Environmental Indicators: • Transfer of knowledge on environmental indicators • Discussed and agreed a set of environmental indicators • Review of the production and sharing of the indicators
Work in Central Asia regarding SEIS • UNECE/EEA & partners assistance to establish national SEIS – the focus of both bodies: • Today: several environmental indicators / Tomorrow: additional several indicators to be added as part of SEIS common components (until a full list is reached) • Assessment based on indicators • Create the necessary knowledge base for effective policy making
Work in Central Asia regarding SEIS Status as of May 2014
Work in Central Asia regarding SEIS Expected status as of November 2014
Work in Central Asia regarding SEIS Future activities • Monitoring activities . • Assistance to establishing of monitoring network (this case) • Assistance to establishing statistical surveys • Assistance to clarify the legal basis/institutional procedures/infrastructuralissues
Work in Central Asia regarding SEIS Future activities • Assessment activities . • What the indicator measures? • How to understand and use it? • I.e. what is the story behind Necessary work to help producing modern SoE reports
Work in Central Asia regarding SEIS Future activities with the lead of WGEMA and JTF Each CA country: - has a system in place producing the agreed indicators - writes the ‘story’ for each of the indicators - analyzes the indicators and makes environmentalassessments More immediate focus (before 2016): Indicators and assessment regarding Air Pollution and Green Economy (as potential themes for 2016 EfE Ministerial Conference) 2014 202X WGEMA and JTF give a guarantee for a continuing process and sustainability