Developing Integrated Indicators to Support Climate Adaptation and Sustainability Decision Making Robert S. Chen, Alex de Sherbinin, and Marc Levy Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center Our Common Future Under Climate Change Paris, 7-10 July 2015 Session 1105(b) – Quality and availability of data for global sustainability
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Developing Integrated Indicators to Support Climate Adaptation and Sustainability Decision MakingRobert S. Chen, Alex de Sherbinin, and Marc LevyCenter for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Our Common Future Under Climate ChangeParis, 7-10 July 2015Session 1105(b) – Quality and availability of data for global sustainability
Indicators are stepping stones between data and knowledge
Indicators anchor discourse and action around common metrics Indicators provide
beacons in stormy seas of complexity and rapid change
“How’m I doin’?”
Getting indicators right requires ability to navigate across disciplinary, stakeholder and data format divides
Consumer Price Index Unemployment Rate US Federal Debt Human Development Report Health/Medical indicators World Economic Forum Competitiveness Index Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock
Indicators Are Essential to Monitoring and Decision Making in Many Realms
Natural Resource Protection Indicator◦ Measure of level of protection
afforded to a country’s biomes
Child Health Indicator◦ Measure of a government’s
commitment to child health as indicated by child mortality, sound management of water resources and water systems, and proper sewage disposal and sanitary control
Report to the UN Secretary-General delivered in November 2014:A World That Counts: Mobilising the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development
Key issues:◦ Accessibility and accountability◦ Expanded set of sustainable development
Indicators◦ Data innovation◦ Data landscape
UN Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development
http://www.undatarevolution.org/
Needs Assessment of SDG Monitoring and Data for Development
Recommends a typology for Development Data
Provides estimates of envelope costs for sustainable development data production for 77 IDA countries
The global community should mobilize to collectively fund $1billion per annum in monitoring systems.
Innovations for cost reductions should be systematically integrated into broader data systems. This includes geospatial data, satellite data, crowd-sourcing, smart-meters, mobile phone data collection and data mining.