2nd Meeting, 20th Session of Joint Task force…

14:30 – 15:45

Agenda item 5. Ongoing developments with relevance for the work of the Joint Task Force (continued)

• Trade and biodiversity statistics, Diana Camerini, UNCTAD
• Updates on Global Work on Environment and Statistics, Marcus Newbury, United Nations Statistics Division
• Overview on OECD activities on Green Finance, Miguel Cardenas Rodriquez and Rodrigo Pizarro, OECD
• GEP Sustainable Infrastructure Index: Application; Evaluating national progress towards a sustainable infrastructure, Rowan Palmer, UNEP

- Discussion

15:45 – 16:00 Comfort break

16:15 – 17:15 

Agenda item 5. Ongoing developments with relevance for the work of the Joint Task Force (continued)

• Advanced findings of the Regional e-waste monitor for the Western Balkans, Kees Balde,

- National developments in the production and sharing of environmental indicators and statistics with a focus on revised UNECE air related indicators, statistics on sustainable infrastructure, biodiversity, chemicals and waste and/or circular economy:

• Austrian Green Finance Agenda and the development of its monitoring and evaluation scheme, Sabine Kunesch and Karl Dobner, Austria
• Environmental Indicators of Life Quality and methodology for calculating a Composite Index characterizing the ecological condition of Yerevan city and RA regions, Naira Mandalyan, Armenia

- Discussion

17:15 – 17:30 Conclusions of the first day