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? UN-ESCWA Statistics: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western 4
Asia (ESCWA)

? (http://www.escwa.org.lb/information/publications.asp,COMPENDIUM OF
ENVIRONMENT STATISTICS IN THE ESCWA REGION
? AOAD: Arab Organization for Agricultural Development, http://www.aoad.org/aas2/
index.htm Abu Dhabi, UAE

? CEDARE: The Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and
Europe (CEDARE). http://portal.cedare.int/

International data collecting sources

? OECD has developed solid environmental data collection systems. OECD Environmental
Data Compendium and Environmental Indicators reports are published in book format
every two years.
? UN Regional Commissions are collecting environmental data from countries at the
regional level, sometimes in cooperation with UNEP.

? UN Statistical Division collects country data in cooperation with UNEP and coordinates
with similar surveying by OECD and Eurostat, into account data collection activities by
other organizations such as FAO, UNFCCC and GEMS-Water. (http://unstats.un.org/
unsd/default.htm)

? Ozone depleting substances (Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol, http://ozone.
unep.org/)
? Greenhouse gas emissions (UNFCCC, http://unfccc.int)

? Hazardous waste movements (Basel Convention, http://www.basel.int/)

? Long-range transboundary air pollution (CLTRAP, http://www.unece.org/ env/lrtap)
? Global Environmental Observation coordination – in-situ and satellite remote sensing

? Global Observation Systems include land, oceans and climate (GTOS, GOOS, GCOS,
together labelled G3OS, see http://www.gosic.org/), guided through an Integrated
Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) and supported by the IGOS Partnership (http://
www.igospartners.org/).

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