Environmental statistics in the Mediterranean countries – Compendium 2005, is the second environmental statistics compendium produced by UNEP/MAP Blue Plan, the implementing agency for the MEDSTAT-Environment project (MED-Env), in collaboration with the EC EuropeAid Cooperation Office and Eurostat. It has been compiled o­n the basis of data coming from the national statistics offices (NSOs) of twelve Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Syria Cyprus, Malta and Turkey). It reveals the work carried out during the three years of the second phase of the MEDSTAT Environment project aimed at reinforcing and consolidating the institutional capacities of Mediterranean countries to produce national statistics that are recent, relevant, reliable and comparable from o­ne country to the next because they have been harmonised according to international and European standards, while conserving the essential local specificities. In the first phase the project concentrated o­n the topics of water, waste and land use, while this second phase concentrated its activities o­n air pollutant emissions, biodiversity and the calculation of environmental indicators for sustainable development. The publication is available in English and French through the Eurostat website.

Source: EMWIS  / Euro-Mediterranean Information System o­n the know-how in the Water sector
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