BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4d058bc6246 DTSTART:20251204T130000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20251204T220000Z LOCATION:Bridgetown\, Barbados SUMMARY:National workshop on enhanced statistics for evidence-based climate action in maritime trade\, transport and fisheries in Barbados CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:As Small Island Developing State\, Barbados strongly relies on the ocean for its economic development and generation of welfare. The ocea n not only provides fish\, algae and other precious aquatic products\, inc luding plastic substitutes\; it also gives Barbados invaluable opportuniti es for the importation of and exportation of goods worldwide. Like other e conomic sectors\, the ocean economy must participate in global efforts for the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions\, a main source of globa l warming. This goal is especially important for island states like Barbad os where the rising sea level and extreme weather events cause especially strong impacts.To manage the transition towards a low-carbon ocean-based e conomy successfully\, Barbados requires strong analytical and statistical capacities. Strengthening these capacities is a primary aim of the project “Evidence-based Climate Action through Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation for Caribbean SIDS”\, organized by the United Nations Depart ment on Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)\, in which Barbados participates as a pilot country. More specifi cally\, the project will support Barbados in leveraging satellite data fro m the Automatic Identification System for the tracking of vessel movements \, made available through the UN Global Platform\, in combination with nat ional sources\, to produce modern and high-quality GHG emission statistics for maritime trade\, maritime transport and fisheries\, coherent with int ernational trade statistics and national accounts. The project will also a ssist Barbados in using these data for analysis and the development of pol icy recommendations to manage the transition towards a low-carbon blue eco nomy\, seizing the new opportunities arising from that transition. This wo rkshop\, jointly organized by the Barbados Fisheries Division\, the Barbad os Statistical Service\, UNDESA and UNCTAD\, will kick off the activities for that project in Barbados.Goals and intended outcomesThe goals of the w orkshop are to:Make statistics producers and users in Barbados aware of th e objectives of the project and promote dialogue between main users and pr oducers of the envisaged statisticsEnsure close match between the project objectives and the users’ needs in BarbadosIdentify related initiatives in Barbados and the Caribbean on which the project can build and to which it can contributeOutline and discuss a basic method for using AIS data in combination with national data sources for the compilation of statistics o f maritime trade\, maritime transport and fishery and their CO2 emissionsE xplore the pre-requisites in Barbados for the implementation of the method aboveEstablish collaboration between the national statistics office and o rganisations that can contribute to the delivery and compilation of dataTh e workshop should yield as outcomes:  an outline of the content and struc ture of the envisaged statistics on maritime trade\, maritime transport an d fisheries and their emissions  a shared understanding of the statistica l method to be applied\, tailored to the resources and needs in the countr ya plan for a production system for the envisaged statisticsa definition o f roles for the involved agencies\, with regards to provision of source da ta\, data compilation and hosting and dissemination of the statisticsagree ments across agencies about data exchange AudienceOpen to government offi cials\, national statistics producers\, fisheries experts\, civil society\ , academia\, and international partners.<\;p>\;As Small Island Develop ing State\, Barbados strongly relies on the ocean for its economic develop ment and generation of welfare. The ocean not only provides fish\, algae a nd other precious aquatic products\, including plastic substitutes\; it al so gives Barbados invaluable opportunities for the importation of and expo rtation of goods worldwide. Like other economic sectors\, the ocean econom y must participate in global efforts for the reduction of global greenhous e gas emissions\, a main source of global warming. This goal is especially important for island states like Barbados where the rising sea level and extreme weather events cause especially strong impacts.<\;/p>\;<\;p& gt\;To manage the transition towards a low-carbon ocean-based economy succ essfully\, Barbados requires strong analytical and statistical capacities. Strengthening these capacities is a primary aim of the project “Evidenc e-based Climate Action through Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation for Caribbean SIDS”\, organized by the United Nations Department on Eco nomic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)\, in which Barbados participates as a pilot country. More specifically\, the project will support Barbados in leveraging satellite data from the Autom atic Identification System for the tracking of vessel movements\, made ava ilable through the UN Global Platform\, in combination with national sourc es\, to produce modern and high-quality GHG emission statistics for mariti me trade\, maritime transport and fisheries\, coherent with international trade statistics and national accounts. The project will also assist Barba dos in using these data for analysis and the development of policy recomme ndations to manage the transition towards a low-carbon blue economy\, seiz ing the new opportunities arising from that transition. This workshop\, jo intly organized by the Barbados Fisheries Division\, the Barbados Statisti cal Service\, UNDESA and UNCTAD\, will kick off the activities for that pr oject in Barbados.<\;/p>\;<\;h4>\;Goals and intended outcomes<\; /h4>\;<\;p>\;The goals of the workshop are to:<\;/p>\;<\;ul> \;<\;li data-list-item-id="\;e84337a8dd27e5f448b936b90252af3af\n\nVi ew meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/national-workshop-enh anced-statistics-evidence-based-climate-action-maritime-trade-0 DTSTAMP:20260707T135627Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4d058bc6284 DTSTART:20251205T130000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20251205T220000Z LOCATION:Bridgetown\, Barbados SUMMARY:National workshop on enhanced statistics for evidence-based climate action in maritime trade\, transport and fisheries in Barbados CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:As Small Island Developing State\, Barbados strongly relies on the ocean for its economic development and generation of welfare. The ocea n not only provides fish\, algae and other precious aquatic products\, inc luding plastic substitutes\; it also gives Barbados invaluable opportuniti es for the importation of and exportation of goods worldwide. Like other e conomic sectors\, the ocean economy must participate in global efforts for the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions\, a main source of globa l warming. This goal is especially important for island states like Barbad os where the rising sea level and extreme weather events cause especially strong impacts.To manage the transition towards a low-carbon ocean-based e conomy successfully\, Barbados requires strong analytical and statistical capacities. Strengthening these capacities is a primary aim of the project “Evidence-based Climate Action through Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation for Caribbean SIDS”\, organized by the United Nations Depart ment on Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)\, in which Barbados participates as a pilot country. More specifi cally\, the project will support Barbados in leveraging satellite data fro m the Automatic Identification System for the tracking of vessel movements \, made available through the UN Global Platform\, in combination with nat ional sources\, to produce modern and high-quality GHG emission statistics for maritime trade\, maritime transport and fisheries\, coherent with int ernational trade statistics and national accounts. The project will also a ssist Barbados in using these data for analysis and the development of pol icy recommendations to manage the transition towards a low-carbon blue eco nomy\, seizing the new opportunities arising from that transition. This wo rkshop\, jointly organized by the Barbados Fisheries Division\, the Barbad os Statistical Service\, UNDESA and UNCTAD\, will kick off the activities for that project in Barbados.Goals and intended outcomesThe goals of the w orkshop are to:Make statistics producers and users in Barbados aware of th e objectives of the project and promote dialogue between main users and pr oducers of the envisaged statisticsEnsure close match between the project objectives and the users’ needs in BarbadosIdentify related initiatives in Barbados and the Caribbean on which the project can build and to which it can contributeOutline and discuss a basic method for using AIS data in combination with national data sources for the compilation of statistics o f maritime trade\, maritime transport and fishery and their CO2 emissionsE xplore the pre-requisites in Barbados for the implementation of the method aboveEstablish collaboration between the national statistics office and o rganisations that can contribute to the delivery and compilation of dataTh e workshop should yield as outcomes:  an outline of the content and struc ture of the envisaged statistics on maritime trade\, maritime transport an d fisheries and their emissions  a shared understanding of the statistica l method to be applied\, tailored to the resources and needs in the countr ya plan for a production system for the envisaged statisticsa definition o f roles for the involved agencies\, with regards to provision of source da ta\, data compilation and hosting and dissemination of the statisticsagree ments across agencies about data exchange AudienceOpen to government offi cials\, national statistics producers\, fisheries experts\, civil society\ , academia\, and international partners.<\;p>\;As Small Island Develop ing State\, Barbados strongly relies on the ocean for its economic develop ment and generation of welfare. The ocean not only provides fish\, algae a nd other precious aquatic products\, including plastic substitutes\; it al so gives Barbados invaluable opportunities for the importation of and expo rtation of goods worldwide. Like other economic sectors\, the ocean econom y must participate in global efforts for the reduction of global greenhous e gas emissions\, a main source of global warming. This goal is especially important for island states like Barbados where the rising sea level and extreme weather events cause especially strong impacts.<\;/p>\;<\;p& gt\;To manage the transition towards a low-carbon ocean-based economy succ essfully\, Barbados requires strong analytical and statistical capacities. Strengthening these capacities is a primary aim of the project “Evidenc e-based Climate Action through Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation for Caribbean SIDS”\, organized by the United Nations Department on Eco nomic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)\, in which Barbados participates as a pilot country. More specifically\, the project will support Barbados in leveraging satellite data from the Autom atic Identification System for the tracking of vessel movements\, made ava ilable through the UN Global Platform\, in combination with national sourc es\, to produce modern and high-quality GHG emission statistics for mariti me trade\, maritime transport and fisheries\, coherent with international trade statistics and national accounts. The project will also assist Barba dos in using these data for analysis and the development of policy recomme ndations to manage the transition towards a low-carbon blue economy\, seiz ing the new opportunities arising from that transition. This workshop\, jo intly organized by the Barbados Fisheries Division\, the Barbados Statisti cal Service\, UNDESA and UNCTAD\, will kick off the activities for that pr oject in Barbados.<\;/p>\;<\;h4>\;Goals and intended outcomes<\; /h4>\;<\;p>\;The goals of the workshop are to:<\;/p>\;<\;ul> \;<\;li data-list-item-id="\;e84337a8dd27e5f448b936b90252af3af\n\nVi ew meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/national-workshop-enh anced-statistics-evidence-based-climate-action-maritime-trade-0 DTSTAMP:20260707T135627Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR