ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS IN TURKEY Sebahattin SARI TurkStat June 2014 Azerbaijan
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Environment Statistics Environment, Energy and Transport Statistics Department Water and Waste Statistics Group Environmental Accounts Group Energy and Transport Statistics Group In the Offical Statistics Programme, the responsibilities of all organizations besides TurkStat are defined
Environment Statistics Framework: OECD core set of environmental data and indicators since 1990 Main environmental topics: water wastewater waste air emissions environmental employment environmental expenditure and revenues environmental accounts
Water and Wastewater Statistics Data sources; Municipalities, Ministry of Interior, Manufacturing industry establishments, Thermal power plants, Organized industrial regions, Mining establishments Biennial surveys in order to compile data on water abstraction, treatment, water consumption, wastewater discharges and treatment Biennial reporting to Eurostat via Joint Questionnaire on Inland Waters
Waste Statistics Data sources; Municipalities, Health Institutions, Waste Disposal and Recovery Plants, Manufacturing industry establishments, Thermal power plants, Organized industrial regions, Mining establishments Biennial surveys in order to compile data on waste generation and treatment Biennial reporting to Eurostat under Waste Statistics Regulation
Environmental Employment, Revenue and Expenditure Statistics Data collected via annual surveys for public sector from governmental organisations municipalities private provincial administrations business sector from manufacturing industry enterprises electricity, gas, and water enterprises mining and quarrying enterprises water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities other business sectors specialised producers from general directorates of water and sewerage services local administration unions for water and sewerage services organized industrial regions Annual reporting to Eurostat via Joint Questionnaire on Environmental Protection Expenditure and Revenues
Environmental Economic Accounts European Regulation on Environmental Economic Accounts (No 691/2011) air emission accounts environmental taxes material flow accounts. Regulation 538/2014 amending Regulation 691/2011 on European Environmental Economic Accounts environmental protection expenditure accounts environmental goods and services energy accounts Pyhsical water flow accounts as a pilot for 2004 and 2008 } Annual reporting to Eurostat
Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory 2004, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2009, Kyoto Protocol were ratified by Turkey As an Annex I party to Convention, Turkey is required to develop annual inventories on emissions and removals of greenhouse gases (GHG). Annual reporting by TurkStat to UNFCCC since 2006
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