THE ROLE OF NATIONAL STATISTICAL OFFICES INDEVELOPING THE CLIMATE CHANGE STATISTICS, A CASESTUDY FROM THE STATISTICAL CENTRE OF IRAN

Abstract

This paper is a case study on the role of the national statistical offices (NSO) in  eveloping the climate change statistics. The NSOs are the best resources for statistics on the progress made within the countries in line with the international agreed-upon  evelopment agenda. One duty of the NSOs is to provide timely, relevant, and reliable statistics to public and international agencies to report on the progress made in every country within the national or international development programs. This research looks
at the statistical information on the environment and climate change issues which the  Statistical Centre of Iran as the focal point for official statistics in the I.R. Iran publishes annually.
There are two chapters in the Iran Statistical Yearbook which present the statistics  in the climate and environment. Chapter one (land and climate) includes statistics on ‘geographical characteristics and administrative divisions,’ and ‘climate.’ (environment) presents statistics collected from various resources on water, soil, and air.