2023年拉丁美洲和加勒比环境统计机构更新情况

ECLAC StatisticalBriefings Update on institutions producingenvironment statistics in Latin Americaand the Caribbean, 2023 The production of environment statistics in the countries of the region is influencedby institutions’ progress in incorporating such statistics into their own productionprocesses. As recognized in the Framework for the Development of EnvironmentStatistics,1environment statistics span many disciplines and pull data from awide range of sources. Many institutions in addition to national statistical officesand environmental agencies or ministries play a key role in the production ofenvironment statistics, the result of gradual development and systematizationof methodological resources, tools and good practices. Contents 1. Information-gathering. .22. Institutional and legalframework. . . . . . . . . . . . .4 3. Institutionalorganization andstakeholders. . . . . . . . . . . .4 4. National environmentstatistics plans. . . . . . . . . .6 In late 2023, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)conducted a survey on the status of environment statistics, indicators andaccounts in Latin America and the Caribbean, which it circulated to representativesof national statistical offices and ministries of environment in the region.The general objectives of the survey were to collect updated information on thestatus of environment statistics, indicators and accounts and climate changein the region from the perspective of national statistical offices and ministriesof environment; identify existing gaps and challenges to be addressed, in linewith the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for SustainableDevelopment; identify the statistical and technical processes involved in environmental 5. Human resourcesdedicated to environmentstatistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 6. Conclusions. . . . . . . . . .9 accounting, using the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), the SEEA Central Frameworkand SEEA - Ecosystem Accounting, in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; and determine thestatus of progress on climate change statistics and indicators. 1.Information-gathering The 2023 survey was based on a survey conducted in 2015, the results of which were published in “La situaciónde las estadísticas, indicadores y cuentas ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe”2in 2017. Some additionswere made with a view to rounding out the analysis to address some of the challenges identified in the 2017publication and to review more recent ones. The original questionnaire from 2015 comprised 33 open-endedquestions. The questionnaire used in this most recent exercise comprised 53 numbered questions and anupdated structure for stylistic standardization. In addition, it used multiple choice rather than open-endedquestions to elicit more specific information, despite the more complicated analysis that this change entailed.Standardization efforts included building, distributing and completing the survey entirely online using GoogleForms. This online version will simplify future exercises so that periodic follow-up on these topics in the regioncan be carried out more efficiently. The survey was circulated in October and November 2023 to heads and focal points of national statisticaloffices and ministries of environment or other national authorities responsible for environmental mattersin the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, including the English-speaking Caribbean. During thistime, follow-up reminders were sent out by email and, in certain cases, efforts were made to follow up withindividual countries that had not yet submitted responses as the deadline approached. Table 1 shows thecountries and territories and the institutions that responded to the survey. As shown, 30 countries and territories of Latin America and the Caribbean responded to the survey, including17 countries of Latin America (Argentina, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay,Peru, the Plurinational State of Bolivia and Uruguay) and 13 countries and territories of the English-speakingCaribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica,Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago). National statistical offices provided the majority of the responses received. For El Salvador and Peru, onlythe ministries of environment responded. It should be noted that for Colombia, both the national statisticaloffice and the Ministry of Environment submitted responses, but the results of the analysis represent theirconsolidated responses. This document presents and analyses information received in response to those survey questions that werefocused on understanding the national legal framework and the institutions that uphold it, the formation ofan inter-institutional committee, co