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📅 Last week 53 experts from 25 countries and 12 organizations met in Geneva at our annual Expert Forum for Producers and Users of Climate Change-Related Statistics to exchange their experiences and share best practices! 🌠 The highlights of the meeting included: ◾ Showcasing strong institutional arrangements and whole-of-government approaches to improving climate change-related data by Canada, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Korea and PARIS21 ◾ Key role of energy statistics in informing climate change mitigation policies as seen in the Dutch National Plan Energy system and an upcoming International Energy Agency (IEA) guide to designing an energy statistics roadmap (to be published in September!) ◾ Brand new OECD - OCDE work on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) mapping methodology for climate change mitigation and mitigation-relevant policy and integrating GHG emissions inventories and accounts ◾ Innovative work on developing a monetary climate change mitigation account for the Dutch government sector and on measuring transformational change and institutional arrangements for climate finance reporting by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero of the United Kingdom ◾ Fantastic examples of how statistics can inform climate change adaptation - Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek ‘Climate Impact and Adaptation’ project, quantifying population exposure to natural hazards in France (CGDD - Commissariat général au développement durable), meteoclimatic indicators of Italian cities produced by Istat and progress on indicators of climate change impacts on health and opening of consultation process by the United Kingdom ◾ Great discussion on how statisticians can contribute to the UAE–Belém work programme on indicators for measuring progress achieved towards the targets under the UAE Framework for global climate resilience. 🔍 All papers and presentations are available on the meeting website: https://lnkd.in/dSHSK2KY 👏 Thank you to all attendees for the fruitful discussions, and a special thanks to our presenters, the session leads and Michele McMillan (Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada), the chair of the Steering Group on Climate Change-Related Statistics. See you next year on 1-3 September 2025 in Geneva – do you already know what topics we should discuss next? Let us know in the comments!