Environmental data and information

Visualization of Performance Profiling Data

The new challenge currently facing the world was to go beyond short term environmental performance and to strive for environmental sustainability.

Data availability Lack of adequate, reliable and consistent environmental and socioeconomic data Scattered, limited, discontinued and insufficient data Institutional constraints in accessing and sharing data

There was data online from a 2006 environmental risk conference, other geospatial data, none of it integrated.

Changing session data is not possible, but frameset performance will be improved.

It provides comparative data on selected aspects of industrial performance and on the structural drivers underpinning the industrial performance of countries.

Working at the EROS Data Center, the team produced numerous maps and analyses, as well as a substantial environmental information system for the two basins using remotely sensed, map, and environmental data.

ISAR noted that an enterprise's environmental performance could affect its financial health and hence its sustainability.

Clean technology is a concept of relative environmental performance, which is subject to change over time.

E. Harmonization of data collection activities with environmental economic accounting concepts and definitions

Because several environmental conventions, policies and programmes depend on national self assessment processes and environmental audits, young people highlight the need to be involved in environmental consultations, monitoring and data collection.

Presentations on remote sensing focused on the opportunities for using satellite data for environmental monitoring.

A reliability centered maintenance program continually adjusted procedures based on actual performance data and operational experience.

In July 2005, the Deputy Secretary General chaired the first organizational meeting of the Management Performance Board, which conducted a review of existing sources of managerial performance data.

Integrating Environmental and Financial Performance at the Enterprise Level (UNCTAD ITE TED 1). United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

In West Asia, UNEP is a strategic partner in the Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI), supporting regional and national efforts in environmental information development and management.

The group took the view that the board should disclose its policy and performance in connection with environmental and social responsibility and the impact of this policy and performance on the firm's sustainability.

(e) Work towards the harmonization of data collection activities of environment and related statistics with concepts and definitions of environmental economic accounting, including the assurance of data quality.

This is a system that could put the next generation at the front lines of gathering environmental data.

They will provide improved access to data to support integrated environmental assessments and reporting activities in the regions.

The general exploration plan is to gather data on the mineral resources and to establish environmental baseline parameters.

The global study included a global environmental data and information systems knowledge base, global lessons learned for the design of environmental information systems and a conceptual design document for AGEDI.

The analytical features of the data warehouse system will improve the performance of the management of the Fund's investments.

Besides the data security and process automation features that will allow faster data compilation, the database system will incorporate results based budgeting frameworks for budgets and performance reports (ibid., paras.

It used these maps and other spatial data in a GIS with environmental models to estimate consumptive water use.

Pathfinders constitute a recent application of Earth science and other data sets, developed specifically to study global environmental change.

Accelerated disease campaign strategies have shown the effectiveness of using performance data, micro planning, local communication and campaign type approaches.

Landsat data applications support programs such as global change research, coastal zone monitoring, timber management, regional planning, and environmental monitoring.

The data portal provides access to a broad collection of harmonized environmental and socio economic data sets from authoritative sources at the global, regional, subregional and national levels and allows basic data analysis and the creation of maps and graphics.

(f) Acknowledging that performance management incurs costs, appropriate funds will be allocated for training, data collection, recording and related information systems

This data will support technological developments and environmental monitoring in response to concerns of those governments about pollution and disease control.

In Lithuania, a cleaner production programme is being implemented with support from the Norwegian Government to improve environmental performance, competitiveness and regulatory compliance of industry.

SABIS mines large data sets to ensure high standards and enhance academic performance for more than 63,000 students. Continuous tracking of annual student academic performance yields more than 14 million data points that are used to shape instruction, achieve learning objectives, and ensure consistency across the company s network of schools in 15 countries.

The Advisory Committee observes that performance data under certain objects of expenditure consistently reflect a good measure of control and financial discipline.

A criteria based approach allows analysts to focus on data collection in terms of explicitly stated dimensions of quality, effectiveness and performance.

The project is using satellite image data to map land use at the scale of 1 250,000 as a part of the Environmental Information Systems Development component of the Ghana Environmental Resources Management Project (GERMP).

State Parties shall exchange available information and data regarding the hydrological, hydro geological, water quality, meteorological and environmental condition of shared watercourses.

The GEO data portal is continually updated and upgraded by UNEP. This is an authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the GEO report and other integrated environmental assessment processes.

Harmonizing environment statistics and environmental economic accounting concepts, definitions and classifications would introduce statistical checks and balances in the data and produce consistent data systems from individual sets of environment statistics across time and countries.

The problem of relative environmental performance could be overcome either by setting up a proper review mechanism or by including entire plants or technologies in the list.

The agenda for the meeting included such items as (a) scope and classifications (b) statistical and reporting units (c) data items and their definitions (d) data sources and data collection methods (e) indices and performance indicators and (f) distributive trade statistics and compilation of national accounts.

The USGS was cooperating with the EPA, NOAA, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to prepare a baseline of global, multiscale data on environmental characteristics and to develop mechanisms for identifying, monitoring, and assessing environmental change.

The contents of the GEO data portal cover a broad range of environmental themes such as climate, disasters, forests and freshwater, as well as categories in the socio economic domain, including education, health, the economy, population and environmental policies.

To tackle these problems, we came up with an open data information liquidity project, which will advocate and organize the publication, exchange, aggregation, and analysis of health data not just general statistics, but specific data about health outcomes in terms of drugs and treatments, hospital performance, and the like.