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Details

Start: 
March 2, 2026        

End:
March 6, 2026

Course Number:
ST26.08

Application Deadline

October 3, 2026

Macro-relevant Environment and Climate Change Statistics (CCS-I)

Target Audience

Officials from national statistics agencies, ministries of finance, planning and environment, central banks, and other agencies, who are responsible for compiling and/or using environment or climate change related indicators.

Qualifications

Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or statistics.

Course Description

This five-day course, conducted by the Statistics Department, familiarizes participants with key climate change related indicators that can be developed to better inform economic and financial policies. The statistics covered include Environmental revenues and expenditures, Natural Resource Accounts, Physical and Transition risk indicators, Air Emission Accounts and indicators of Sustainable Finance. The course consists of a series of lectures giving overview of methods for compiling climate change-related indicators, and insights into the analytical uses of the climate change-related indicators.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to: 

Provide an overview of the type of indicators that can be used to help understand the economic and financial implications of climate change. 
Identify data sources, compilation methods, and uses of key climate indicators.