Earth Observations In Support of Water Action

Date: 21st - 23rd March, 2023

Location: Online

Target Regions:  Africa, Latin America and Caribbean

The webinar is organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in collaboration with the UN Regional Commissions, the UN Statistics Division, as well as other international and national organizations. The goal of the webinar is to increase the knowledge of the beneficiary countries and other invited countries about statistics derived from geospatial and other data sources to assess the impact of the economy on the environment. The webinar consists of the following topics:

  • Impact of anthropogenic and natural processes on freshwater and marine ecosystems
  • Impact of illegal economies on the environment: monitoring of illegal mineral mining
  • Domestic Material Consumption as an indicator of economic pressure on the environment
Agenda Concept Note Webinar Report

Presentations

Sessions Speaker Affiliation Topic
Session 1:
Opening and Introduction
Moderator: Ekaterina Poleshchuk, UNEP
Gabriel Gamez UNSD Introduction of the Statistics and Data Project “Resilient and agile National Statistical Systems to meet post-COVID-19 data needs to recover better” under the 14th tranche of the United Nations Development Account
Ruoxi Li UNEP Results of the Pre-Webinar Survey
Session 2:
Impact of anthropogenic and natural processes on freshwater and marine ecosystems
Moderator: Ekaterina Poleshchuk, UNEP
Indira Persaud UNSD Country-owned official statistics as a source for water statistics
Stuart Crane UNEP The Role of Freshwater Ecosystems in Accelerating the Implementation of Goal 6
Emily Smail University of Maryland Earth Observations for Marine Ecosystem Monitoring
Virginia Fernández Ramos University of the Republic, Uruguay Marine Monitoring Needs and Challenges in a Country Example: Uruguay​
Fernanda Maciel​ Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República In-situ data collection for coastal satellite remote sensing products in Uruguay​
Session 3:
The impact of illegal economies on the environment: monitoring of illegal mineral mining
Moderator: Coen Bussink, UNODC
Leonardo Correa UNODC Response Framework on Illegal Mining
Carlotta Schuster UNCTAD Measuring Illicit Financial Flows in the Mining Sector: the SDG Framework, Bilateral Trade Asymmetries and its Link to Remote Sensing
Jessica D. DeWitt USGS Remote Sensing for Monitoring Artisanal and Small-scale Mining: the Central African Republic
Placide Some,
Aimé Nongkouni 
National Statistics Institute, Burkina Faso Mining Detection and Uptake of the Data
Ndeye Marame Ngom  Minister of Industry and Mines, Senegal Senegal, Detection of Mining and its Impact on the Environment
Nohora Ordoñez Ministry of Mining, Colombia Colombia, Monitoring of Alluvial Gold Mining and the Use of its Data
Rehana Thomas Ministry of Natural Resources, Guyana Guyana, Geospatial Data Integration for Monitoring Mining and the Impact on the Environment in Guyana
Session 4:
Domestic Material Consumption as an indicator of economic pressure on the environment
Moderator: Ekaterina Poleshchuk, UNEP
Stephan Moll Eurostat Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) as an important policy indicator
Eurostat guidelines and questionnaires
Ekaterina Poleshchuk UNEP Available tools to support the calculation of DMC at the country level: General overview
EW-MFA Compiler
Sophia Leticia Groll UNEP The Global MFA Manual the Use of Natural Resources in the Economy: A Global Manual on Economy Wide Material Flow Accounting
Online course on Domestic Extraction for EW-MFA
Dany Ghafari UNEP SDG indicator 8.4.2/12.2.2 and UNEP Questionnaire on EW-MFA for these SDG Indicators
James West CSIRO Global Estimation Provided for Countries: The basis for Domestic Material Consumption accounts in the Global MFA Database
Vistorina M.M Nambundunga Namibia Statistic Agency Validating the Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts (EW-MFA) in Namibia
Session 5: Conclusion
Moderators: Ekaterina Poleshchuk (UNEP) and Coen Bussink (UNODC)
Gabriel Gamez UNSD Importance of Institutional Cooperation and Governance

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