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Climate change indicators are discussed in webinars of Regional Hub for Big Data
September 16, 2024 02h28 PM | Last Updated: September 19, 2024 12h19 AM
The UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Brazil will start a series of webinars about the production of climate change indicators. The first seminar will be held on September 25, at 11 am, and will approach the advances and challenges in the generation of metrics related to climate changes and catastrophes.
Free registration is already open at https://hub.ibge.gov.br/index_port.htm. The event will be in Spanish.
The speaker is Alcantar López, who will present some international examples of indicators in the five areas covered by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), including indicators that are part of the CEPALSTAT.
Georgina is a biologist with more than 25 years’ experience in the generation, management and integration of environment data and information systems for several purposes. She is the head of the Environmental and Climate Change Statistics Area of the Statistics Division at CEPAL.
A series on climate change indicators
The Regional Hub for Big Data has been promoting a series of webinar to share experiences in the use of new sources of data and technologies for the mitigation of climate changes. Among the topic dealt with are biodiversity, tourism Sustainability and integration of geospatial information for monitoring of land use. The sessions will be in Spanish or English, with experts from Latin America and the Caribbean, and from other regions.
Starting in September, the monthly webinars will take place until August next year, with a break in December and January. The second event will be on October 16 about alternative sources to support tourism sustainability.
ENCE coordinates UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Brazil
The result of a partnership between the IBGE and the UN Statistics Division, the UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Brazil (https://hub.ibge.gov.br) was launched in November 2021 in the 11th Statistical Conference for the Americas, carried out by the Statistical Conference for the Americas, (CEA), promoted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. The Hub is based at the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), an academic area of the IBGE, which coordinates efforts and contributions from different fields of the Institute to support activities within the Regional Hub.
The project focuses on the advance in the use of big data use to improve the production of official statistics, so as to promote the sharing of knowledge and of innovative initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Other hubs besides Brazil are United Arab Emirates, Rwanda, Indonesia and China.
