Production of West Balkan EEA CSIs

WGEMA meeting, Geneva, 12-13 June 2007

What are the outcomes?

Produced 12 common EEA CSIs for West Balkan countries

Compendium with produced EECCA indicators

Why fact sheet and compendium?

Short-term Communicating the results to general

public Testing reliability of data

Long-term Strengthening regional cooperation Follow-up actions

What will be included?

12 regional EEA CSIs fact sheets:

CSI 006 Production and consumption of ozone depleting substancesCSI 008 Designated areas

CSI 012 Global and European temperature CSI 031 Renewable electricity CSI 034 Fishing fleet capacity CSI 032 Status of marine fish stocks

CSI 014 Land take CSI 016 Municipal waste generation CSI 022 Bathing water quality CSI 021 Nutrients in transitional,

coastal and marine waters CSI 019 Oxygen consuming

substances in rivers CSI 020 Nutrients in freshwater

What are the selection criteria?

Realistic selection (reliable data and time series without gaps)

Further improvement under the present activity

What are the main challenges?

Data (data reliability) Used methodology

How do we overcome them?

Comparison with international data sources

Country clarifications Statistical gap filling Excluding indicators based on poor

data/methodology

What is the process of commenting by countries?

Continuous consultations throughout the production process

New data and information collection

Fact sheets for comments

CSI 006 Production and consumption of ozone depleting substances

CSI 031 Renewable electricity

Contact person

Jasmina BogdanovicUNEP/GRID Arendal

Project manager

E-mail: jasmina@grida.noMob: +43 650 424 5809