United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the United Nations Environment Programme, and the European Environment Agency is organizing a Workshop on Environment Statistics and Information for Sustainable Development in the Arab Region. The Workshop will be held from 12 November to 16 November 2018 at the ESCWA Headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon.

 The Workshop will focus on, inter alia, building national capacities for the implementation of the FDES 2013 which was endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission at its forty-fourth session in 2013 as the framework for strengthening environment statistics programmes in countries. The Workshop will also provide training on selected topics of environment statistics, in particular on waste and water statistics linking to the ENI SEIS / Horizon 2020 priorities, as well on environmentally-related SDG indicators and climate change statistics. The Workshop aims at providing statisticians from National Statistical Offices and experts from selected Ministries of Environment (or equivalent institutions) with detailed knowledge and understanding of approaches to environment statistics, thus allowing them to identify gaps and deficiencies in environmental data, and contribute to the production of regular, accurate and reliable environment statistics that can allow developing environmental indicators and accounts relevant to policy making and SDGs monitoring. 

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