Strategic environmental information and data dissemination: Case studies from Europe and Mexico Adriana Oropeza Michael Nagy (QSA) III

A private country… becoming public fastly

3.1. How are we shaped?  CIA Factbook  United Nations Millenium Development Goals  The Economist  QSA

Qatar’s environmental profile CIA Factbook Source. CIA Factbook. September 1, 2012

United Nations Millenium Development Goals. MDG Monitor

MDG Data availability by country

The Economist. World in Figures The World in 2012 | The Economist

The Economist. Pocket World in Figures Pocket World in Figures. The Economist Edition.

Qatar’s National Communication. UNFCCC 2011

Qatar’s National Communication. UNFCCC 2011/ National Circumstances

Qatar’s National Communication. UNFCC 2011/ Greenhouse Gas Inventory

QSA. Sustainable Indicators Economic Indicators Environmental Indicators

3.2 Bridge to the future

What is strategic?

WEF. Environmental Risks  Extreme climate change related weather  Droughts and desertification  Loss of freshwater  NatCat: Cyclone; Earthquake; Inland and/or coastal flooding  Air pollution  Biodiversity loss  Failure Climate change adaptation  Irremediable pollution  Land and waterway use mismanagement  Mismanaged urbanization  Persistent extreme weather  Rising GHG emissions  Species overexplotaition  Unprecedented geophysical destruction Fuente. WEF. Global Risks and 2012 Editions

Qatar’s National Communication. UNFCCC 2011/ Vulnerability and Adaptation & Mitigation  High resolution climate change scenarios  Water/ Moisture Availability and Agriculture  Energy Sector  Effects on Urban Areas  Public Health  Coastal Zone and Offshore Locations  Marine Environment  GHG Mitigation  Energy Efficiency and Resource Utilization  Opportunities for Oil & Gas; Electricity & Water

Sustainable Development Goals? 2015 – Food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture (including healthy livestocks and marine ecosystems) – Water and sanitation – Energy – Sustainable tourism – Sustainable transport – Sustainable cities and human settlements – productive employment, decent work for all and social protection - green jobs – Health and population – Oceans and seas – Disaster risk reduction – Climate change – Forests – Biodiversity – Desertification, land degradation and drought – Mountains – Chemicals and waste – Sustainable Consumption and Production – Mining UNCSD Report of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

Case Study: National System of Environmental Information (SEMARNAT -SNIARN) Case Study: Mexico’s MDG website Case Study: Gapminder Case Study: European Environment Agency: DPSIR and Indicator Sheets Case Study: The Austrian Water Information System Case Study: Eye on Earth Case Study: The European Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) 3.3 Spreading the seeds

National System of Environmental Information (SEMARNAT -SNIARN)

SNIARN’s Integration Process ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION INTEGRATION PROCESS Different formats -Thematic databases – key stakeholder ( Water, forests, etc. Integrated database – Real time – Government users / general public Indicators, Time series, Reports

MDG. Mexico website

World: Gapminder – “The Beauty of Statistics”

Austria: Gapminder (national website on Environmental-Economic Accounts)

European Environment Agency: DPSIR and Indicator Sheets

European Environment Agency: DPSIR and Indicator Sheets

Water Information System Austria (WISA)  WISA GIS-viewer  Public participation  Link to distributed data bases  Library  Map distribution

System Architecture: Current Situation Umweltbundesamt CMS H2O database Watergraph Database EMREG-OG database WISA database GIS Data H2O Database LFRZ WFS Service HyDaMs WISA Web GIS e-hyd Link to sectoral data basesDatadelivery Water Information System Austria (WISA)

Applications BMGFJ Enterprise Service Bus LFRZ Umweltbundesamt CMS Areal view EMREG-OG database Digital cataster WFD reporting maps Applications WISE-Porta l Added Value Services GIS Data H2O database Watergraph database WIS Regional Applications BMLFUW WISA Others data- base x Implementation of SOA (future) Transformation Service

Europe: Citizen Science,

European Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS): Principles  Information should be  managed as close as possible to its source;  collected once, and shared with others for many purposes;  readily available to public authorities  readily accessible to end-users, primarily public authorities at all levels from local to European  accessible to enable end-users, both public authorities and citizens, to make comparisons at the appropriate geographical scale  fully available to the general public at the appropriate level of aggregation and subject to appropriate confidentiality constraints, and at national level in the relevant national language(s)  Information sharing and processing should be supported through common, free open source software tools.

Adriana Oropeza Michael Nagy Thank you for your attention!