Earth Observations In Support of Water Action

Date: 18th - 20th April, 2023

Location: Online

Target Regions:  Asia, Europe and North Africa

The webinar is organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 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 Webinar Report

Presentations

Sessions     Speaker Affiliation Topic
Session 1:
Opening and Introduction
Moderator: Coen Bussink, UNODC
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
Alice Bourdet UNODC Results of the Pre-Webinar Survey
Session 2:
Impact of anthropogenic and natural processes on freshwater and marine ecosystems
Moderator: Ekaterina Poleshchuk, UNEP
Marcus Newbury 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
Said Omar Ministry of Water, Sanitation & Irrigation, Kenya Data application for national planning
Subrata Sarker Department of Oceanography Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh Integration of Science and Community for Coastal Ecosystem Monitoring in Bangladesh
Ekaterina Poleshchuk UNEP Data collection on SDG 14.1.1 on the Index of Coastal Eutrophication and Marine plastic debris
Session 3:
The impact of illegal economies on the environment: monitoring of illegal mineral mining
Moderator: Coen Bussink, UNODC
Carlotta Schuster UNCTAD Measuring Illicit Financial Flows in the Mining Sector: the SDG Framework, Bilateral Trade Asymmetries and its Link to Remote Sensing
Elsy Ibrahim University of Liege Remote sensing techniques for small-scale mining detection
Dr. Victor Maus University of Vienna Mapping global mining activities using open Earth observation data
Mohammed Azad Mineral Resources Department, FIJI Strengthening Development Minerals Governance in Fiji Using ‘Digital Earth Pacific’
Udhi C Nugroho Researcher,
Badan Riset Dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN), Indonesia
Mining Activities from Space (Indonesia)
Yosafat R Leornard Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources Republic of Indonesia Spatial data Utilization to Monitor Mineral and Coal Mining
Joseph Tuyishimire Digital Earth Africa Monitoring of mining sites and related impacts on natural vegetation using DE Africa platforms
Pierre Lacroix, Abdul moomen UNEP/Grid_geneva Remote Sensing in support of ASGM policy development, implementation and evaluation
Leornado Correa UNODC Response Framework on Illegal Mining
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 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
Jim west CSIRO Global Estimation Provided for Countries: The basis for Domestic Material Consumption accounts in the Global MFA Database
Ezekiel N Kambonde 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