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SDGs and climate change related statisticsExpert Forum for producers and users of climate change related statistics (2-3 September 2015, Geneva)

Tiina Luige, UNECE Statistical Division

Process of establishing SDGs and indicators (1)

•Outcome document from Rio+20 Conference in 2012 “The future we want”– Initiating a process to set up Sustainable Development Goals

– Recognizing that the process has to be assessed by targets and indicators, taking into account different national circumstances, capacities and level of development

– Different groups to develop proposals, including on possible indicators

•December 2014: General Assembly formally launches the process of intergovernmental negotiations on SDGs based on the proposal by the UN Secretary General’s Open Working Group – Co-facilitators of the intergovernmental negotiations on the Post-2015

Development Agenda (Ireland and Kenya) requested the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) to provide a provisional proposal for indicators for SDGs and targets

Process of establishing SDGs and indicators (2)

UNSC in March 2015 decided to establish two groups:

• Interagency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDG)– Develop an indicator framework and a list of indicators for the

monitoring of SDGs at the global level,

– Provide support for the implementation of the indicator framework until 2030, review capacity building

– Report on progress towards SDGs and targets

– Country led process, 28 countries are members, all other countries and international organizations are observers•from UNECE region: Canada, France, Italy/Germany, Kyrgyzstan, the

Netherlands, Russian Federation, Sweden and UK (ex-officio)

•High-level group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for post-2015 monitoring (HLG)•to establish global partnership for SD data – currently being set up

•First IAEG-SDG meeting on 1-2 June 2015 in New York

•Electronic collaboration platform hosted by UNECE– http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/IAEGSDG/IAEG-SDGs– user name and password sent to all IAEG-SDG members and

observers

•Updated indicator list for comments by all IAEG-SDG members and observers, deadline 7 September– list of indicator proposals, version of 11 August 2015– summaries of all comments received: by members, observers and

civil society

•FAO initiated preparing a consolidated input by the UN system – deadline 28 August 2015– focal points for comments on different goals

Current status of the process

•UN Summit 25-27 September 2015 to adopt the outcome document - final wording of goals and targets– “The Goals and targets will be followed-up and reviewed using a set of global

indicators. These will be complemented by indicators at the regional and national levels”, indicators should address all SDGs and targets and preserve political balance (para 75 of the draft outcome document);

– CES Recommendations on measuring sustainable development (2013) a good basis for regional indicators

•2nd IAEG-SDG meeting on 26-28 October 2015 in Bangkok– Review the list of possible global indicators– Discuss global indicator framework, interlinkages across targets and

critical issues, including disaggregation

•The list of indicators should be approved by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2016, and subsequently by ECOSOC and General Assembly– The list has to be ready by end November 2015– List of indicators may evolve until 2030

Next steps

•Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts– 13.1: resilience to climate hazards and natural disasters•Number of deaths, missing people, injured, relocated or evacuated due to

disasters per 100,000 people (Tier 2, source: national disaster loss databases).

– 13.2: integrate climate change into national policies and planning•Number of countries that have formally communicated the establishment of

integrated low-carbon, climate-resilient, disaster risk reduction development strategies (e.g. a national adaptation plan process, national policies and measures to promote transition to environmentally-friendly substances and technologies) (Tier 2, source: secretariats for IMEAs)

– 13.3: education, awareness raising and capacities•Number of countries that have integrated mitigation, adaptation, impact

reduction and early warning into primary, secondary and tertiary curricula (Tier 3, proposed by UNICEF)

Climate change and SDG indicators (1)

•Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (cont.)

– 13.a: mobilise funds for developing countries, Green Climate Fund•Mobilized amount of USD per year starting in 2020 accountable towards the

USD 100 billion commitment (Tier 1, proposed by UNFCCC)

– 13.b: raise capacity to deal with climate change in least developed countries and small island developing States•Number of LDCs that are receiving specialized support for mechanisms for

raising capacities for effective climate change related planning and management, including focusing on women, youth, local and marginalized communities (Tier 3, proposed by OECD)

Climate change and SDG indicators (2)

•Goal 1. Poverty– 1.5 Build resilience of poor and vulnerable to climate-related extreme

events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters•Number of deaths, missing people, injured, relocated or evacuated due to

disasters per 100,000 people (same indicator as for 13.1, Tier 2, source: national disaster loss databases)

•Goal 2. Hunger– 2.4 Sustainable food production and resilient agricultural practices that

strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change etc.•Percentage of agricultural area under sustainable agricultural practices (Tier

2, FAO proposal)

Climate change and SDG indicators (3)

•Goal 11. Cities and human settlements– Target 11.5 reduce number of deaths, people affected and economic losses

caused by disasters

•Number of deaths, missing people, injured, relocated or evacuated due to disasters per 100,000 people.(same as indicators for 1.5 and 13.1)

– 11.b cities implementing policies od mitigation and adaptation to climate change and resilience to disasters•Percentage of cities implementing risk reduction and resilience policies

that include vulnerable and marginalized groups (tier 1, source: government data, OCHA, NGO sources, UNHCR, IOM and IDMC)

•Other goals and targets, indirectly linked with climate change– Goal 7. Energy

– Goal 9. Infrastructure, industrialization and innovation, Target 9.1 resilient infrastructure

– Goal 14. Oceans, seas and marine ecosystems

– Goal 15. Terrestrial ecosystems

Climate change and SDG indicators (4)

Thank you!

Tiina Luige, Chief of Environment and Multi-domain Statistics Section,

UNECE Statistical Division

Contact: tiina.luige@unece.org