IWG-ENV-Meeting 20. – 22. June 2005 in Vienna

About IWG-ENV

In 2003 the Intersecretariat Working Group on Environment Statistics

(IWG-ENV) was set up by the UN Statistical Commission to bring together the main international organisations working on environment statistics, with a focus on the development and harmonisation of methods, concepts and standards, co-ordination of data collection and training. The initial members of this IWG are UNSD (Statistics Division), UN-ECE, UNEP, OECD and Eurostat. The secretariat of the IWG is provided by UNSD.

With the renewed focus on water issues following the Johannesburg WSSD, the IWG, together with FAO and the World Water Assessment Programme, agreed that there was an urgent need to review a number of issues related to water statistics, from the need for data through to the obstacles faced by countries when completing the questionnaires.

The Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environment Agency Austria) offered to host an international Work Session to bring together international water data users and data collection bodies, and a cross-section of countries, to look at these issues in depth. This Work Session was held in Vienna on 20-22 June 2005. Participation was by invitation.

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