Hermanus Rietveld (Coordinator Sustainable Development Goals)4October 2018

GeospatialdatafortheSDGs

ExpertForumforproducers andusers ofclimatechange-relatedstatistics

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Statistics Netherlands:national andinter-national datahub

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- Leading international player inthe fieldofSDGmonitoring- Innovative approach: notonly knowledge ofusingprimarydata(surveys) andregisters (admin data),butalsosensor/big data,including citydataandgeospatial data- FirstNSIworldwide toproduce abaseline reportonthenational position regarding theSDGindicators- Frontrunner inusingdatafromcivil society organisationsinnational SDGmonitoring- Aims tohelp andsupportother countries with thisveryrelevant experience

StatisticsNetherlandsandtheSDGs

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OursecondSDGreport• Reportpublishedon7March2018• feedbackonfirstreportincluded• Basedoninternational(IAEG)indicators

• ContainsCBSandexternaldata• FinancedbyMinistryofForeignAffairs

• Englishversionavailableat:https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/publication/2018/10/the-sdgs-the-situation-for-the-netherlands

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─ ResolutieGA:“improvetheavailability, quality, timelinessanddisaggregation ofdatatosupportthe2030-agenda”

─ Geospatial informationexplicitely quotedasdatasource─ WGongeospatialdataestablished inspring2016, CBS

joinedWGoneyearago─ Firstproduct:

WorkingGrouponGeospatialData

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AfewrelevantexamplesforStatistics Netherlands:─ 6.4.1Changeinwateruseefficiency overtime─ 6.4.2Levelofwaterstress:freshwater withdrawalasa

proportion ofavialable resources─ 15.1.1Forest areaasaproportion oftotal landarea─ 15.3.1Proportion oflandthat isdegraded overtotal land

area

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─ CO2 emission in2017 forTheNetherlandsatthesamelevelasin1990 (163billionkg)

─ Inthesameperiod:emissionsofothergreenhousegassesreducedbyhalf

─ TotalemissionsexpressedinCO2equivalentswere13percent lowerthanin1990

─ Twoexamples:useofgeospatial informationforestimatinguptakeandemissionofcarbondioxideinTheNetherlands

Countryexample:greenhousegasemissions

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Example1:regionalmapCO2 emissions

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Example2:Dutchcarbonaccounts

Belowgroundstock

Emissionsorganicsoils

Sequestrationbybiomass

Abovegroundstock

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Outputcarbonaccounts

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─ CarbonemmisionbybiomassintheNetherlands isnearlytwice ashighassequestration

─ Forestsaccountfor60percentoftheuptake,carbonemmisionsarealmostentirely causedbyoutgassingofpeatlands

─ Theloweringofthewaterlevel foragricultural purposescausesthepeatlandstodesiccate, thusreleasingcarbon

─ Carbonemmisionsaredependentofthedrainagedepth,withthelargestnumbersinthenorthernprovinces.

Mostimportantconclusions

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Questions?