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IAOS Conference 2010 Chile |
IAOS and National Statistics Institute (INE) of Chile are pleased to welcome you to the
As ever more countries focus on understanding the factors that affect the environment and seek ways to protect it, they are realizing that a broad range of economic and social activities matter, and more importantly, that the effects of those activities with the environment are intertwined. Also, greater consideration is being given to the issue of the measurement of sustainability, with environmental issues as an important component.
For the statistical community in general and for National Statistics Offices (NSOs) in particular, a first step is to provide the foundation for informed policy decisions by collecting data and releasing statistical products for each environmental area separately. Integrating information from different sources, and perhaps from different countries, is also essential, because of the interdependent effects on the environment from government policies and from the economic and social activities of households, firms, and governments.
The theme of the 2010 IAOS Conference focuses on the environment in the broad sense.
“Official statistics and the environment: approaches, issues, challenges and linkages”
Peter Harper, Deputy Australian Statistician, Population, Labour, Industry and Environment Statistics Group, Australian Bureau of Statistics;
Torstein Bye, Director for Department for Economy, Energy and Environment, Statistics Norway;
Grace Bediako, Government Statistician, Ghana Statistical Service;
Pieter Everaers, Director of Directorate E - Agriculture and environment
statistics, Statistical cooperation, Eurostat;
Gabriel Gamez, Head of the EFTA Statistical Office (ESO), EFTA – European
Free Trade Association;
Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician and Director, OECD, Statistics
Directorate;
Hector Maldonado Gomez, Director of El Departamento Administrativo
Nacional de Estadística, DANE Colombia
Nancy M. Gordon, Associate Director for Strategic Planning and
Innovation, U.S. Census Bureau;
Eszter Horvath, Chief of Environment and Energy Statistics Branch, UNSD;
Dae-ki Kim, Commissioner, National Statistical Office, Korea;
Irena Krizman, Director-General, Statistical Office of the Republic
Slovenia;
Dominic Leung, SCORUS, Chair;
Rowena Orok, A/Director, Environment Accounts and Statistics, Statistics
Canada;
Eduardo Pereira Nunes, Director of Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e
Estatistica, IBGE Brasil
Mariana Schkolnik Chamudes, National Director, National Statistics
Institute (INE) of Chile;
Marian Scott, 2008-2012 TIES European regional representative;
Mojca Suvorov, Director of Environment and Natural Resources Statistics,
Regional Statistics and Geomatics, Statistical Office of the Republic of
Slovenia, Secretary of CPC;
Representative of the IASS, name to be confirmed later.
The theme of the conference is environment in its broader sense. How can statistics measure the impacts of different strategies and policies which have the effect on the environment and life of the people?
Theme 1: Compiling environmental statistics – sources, methods and
quality. This would include both conventional (i.e. survey based) and
non-conventional (e.g. modelling, estimations, remote sensing, forecasting,
combination of surveys and administrative records, integration of information of
different sources) methods and collaboration between official statisticians and
other collectors of information.
Theme 2: Challenges and innovations in the dissemination of environmental and
related information. This would include GIS, grids, design of public-use
statistical products, indicators, statistical confidentiality vs the right to
know, remote access to data.
Theme 3: Integration of environmental information – frameworks, standards and
classifications. This would include GHG emissions, SEEA, NAMEA, UNFCCC
concepts, land use and land cover classification, ecosystem services.
Theme 4: Environmental and socio-economic linkages – drivers, impacts,
adaptation and instruments, including impacts of energy, transport,
agricultural, health and other policies; measuring effects on specific resources
– water, forests, how to evaluate the transboundary effects, agro-environmental
indicators, consumers’ awareness.
Theme 5: The environment and sustainability, including the conceptual
approaches, frameworks, measurement, the role of indicators, etc.
The proposal is to organize the work in 2 Plenary Sessions, 3 Panel Discussions and 5 Parallel Sessions.
Plenary Session 1
The proposed theme is "Environmental policy on the world level and on the Latin America level"
Plenary Session 2
The proposed theme is “Official statistics’ role in environmental and related socio-economic information”.
We propose that the papers be grouped under 5 main topics. Every Parallel Session will include 1 main topic session in which invited papers will be presented and 2 sessions in which contributed papers of two other main topics will be presented. The topics will be circulated through 5 Parallel Sessions in the way that the participants will be able to hear all presentations for one main theme. Below there is a colour scheme of the sessions and draft agenda.
Proposals and comments to be sent to:
iaos2010.surs@gov.si
1The latest version of the Conference Programme reviewed by Peter Harper and Torstein Bye (Chair and Deputy Chair of the Conference Programme Committee for IAOS 2010 Conference). The document is currently under discussion at the Conference Programme Committee. The paper was also sent to Latin American NSIs Directors General in order to stimulate the participation of the LA countries in the Conference work. All comments are highly appreciated.