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The Statistics Division (SD) of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the UN Environment Program (UNEP), in collaboration with the international research and innovation platform Artificial Intelligence for Environment & Sustainability (ARIES) at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), are launching the ARIES for SEEA Explorer.
The launch event will explain how the Explorer takes a new, ground-breaking, interoperable approach that uses artificial intelligence for ecosystem accounts compilation and provides a basis for the eventual customization of models. It will cover the role of the ARIES for SEEA Explorer in the big data landscape and the relevance of the platform for global initiatives such as the SDGs and post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework; provide a demonstration of the application; and include a question-and-answer session.
Programme
Welcome messages
-Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division
-Mr. Risenga Maluleke, Statistician-General of Statistics South Africa and Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics
Demonstration of the ARIES for SEEA Explorer
-Mr. Ferdinando Villa, ARIES lead investigator
-Q&A moderated by Ms. Alessandra Alfieri, Chief Environmental Economic Accounts Section
Closing reflections
-Mr. Bert Kroese, Deputy Director General of Statistics Netherlands and Chair of the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental Economic Accounting
