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Environmental Indicators and
Statistics MOE Perspective
Shaikha Darwish Saad /Dr.Sayed Buchari
Statistical Researcher
Ministry of Environment
Content
1- About Ministry of Environment
2-MOE Vision & Message
3-Stratigic goals for MOE
4- Reporting obligations (local and international)
5-Role of environmental indicators
6-The needed of information for Ministry of Environment
7. Expectations of environmental statistics and the statistics authority?
How environmental statistics support the MOE work
1- About Ministry of Environment
The Ministry of Environment is striving to achieve several goals, most
importantly, protecting the environment through inclusive and sustainable
growth for future generation to achieve the vision of 2030.
Reaching the vision would be through wildlife conservation, preparing and
proposing laws, projects and suitable solutions for all environmental issues,
implementing them by training Qatari nationals in implementation of
environmental protocols, as well as environmental
awareness .
Civil and governmental organizations should coordinate all efforts;
cooperate with regions and countries by ratification of environmental
agreements and protocols for the purpose of protecting environments.
2- Ministry of Environment Vision & Message
Our Vision: Preserve our environment and preserve and grow our
resources, accessing to a sustainable environment.
The MOE Message: MOE is a Government Foundation seeks to protect
the country environment, development & sustainability of living & nonliving natural resources, quality assurance, environmental health, through
the creation of environmental awareness and propose environmental
legislation, policies and national capacity-building and in accordance with
the principles of community partnership and sustainable development,
best practices and international standards to achieve excellence locally
and leading the state of Qatar globally in the environmental field.
3-Stratigic goals for MOE
1. Balance between the social and economic development needs and
protecting the environment.
2. Preserving and protecting the environment, including air, land, water
and biological diversity
3. Ensure the quality of environmental health and safety
4. Improve the institutional effectiveness and performance
5. Propose and develop policies and legislations to protect the
environment
6. Enhance awareness and environmental culture
7. Support and activate the national, regional and international cooperation
4- Reporting obligations (local and international)
1- International Reporting:
…UNEP, FAO, UNSC, etc.
2- Local Reporting:
MOE has own procedures were information is reported backs to MOE
by various stakeholders in a country. MOE has a process for regularly
monitoring and inspecting facilities to check against any environmental
violations.
6- The needed of information for Ministry of Environment
The importance of accurate and timely environmental information is of
increasing importance.
Two major challenges:
1-Getting environmental data from different stakeholders onto one
common platform & disseminating/sharing the data amongst us
2- Converting data to information to be easier to understand.
MOE is currently engaged in various projects that provide data on quality
of Ambient air, Marine Environment, Ionic Radiation, Hydrogeology
and hydrometeorology etc
7- Expectations of environmental statistics and the statistics
authority? How environmental statistics support the MOE work
We have to have mutual understanding between two organizations in
sharing data.
We need to identify significant environment data & define a mechanism
to find the data.
Environmental data itself can't be seen in isolation .To see the effect of
environmental data on a community we need to correlate this with social,
economic data.
QSA should help us in deriving meaningful statistics out of our data to
help decision support & decision making.
MOE
QSA
Other
Agencies
QSA should help us in perceiving our data in light of other relevant
data/statistics.