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Recognized by the UN, this framework enables countries to organize their environmental data, supporting sustainability and informed policy-making.
Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES)
PSA’s regional division that develops and maintains environment, climate change, and disaster statistics.
Statistical Operations and Coordination Division (SOCD)
Year when the Philippines first released its PFDES (Philippine Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics).
Year 2000
Number of regions compiling and updating their regional environment statistics between 2021 and 2024.
Eight (8) Regions
The division within the Philippine Statistics Authority compiles data on natural capital, environmental flows, and ecosystem values.
Environment and Natural Resources Accounts Division (ENRAD)
This recently passed law, Republic Act No. 11995, establishes a system for tracking and valuing the Philippines’ ecosystems and natural resources.
PENCAS Act (Philippine Ecosystem and Natural Capital Accounting System Act)
Give one of the six types of data sources listed in FDES.
Either of the following:
-Administrative records
-Remote sensing and mapping
-Environmental monitoring
-Scientific research and special projects
-Global sources
-Statistical censuses and surveys
International financial institution that provided technical assistance for the first PFDES.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
International accounting framework to which FDES links for environment-economy integration.
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA)
Name one of the six components of the FDES organizing framework.
Either of the ff:
Environmental Conditions and Quality
Environmental Resources and Their Use
Residuals
Extreme Events and Disasters
Human Settlement and Environmental Health
Environment Protection, Management and Engagement
This component number in FDES covers residuals (waste and emissions).
Component 3
Tier in the Basic Set of Environment Statistics defined as “high priority with sound methodological foundation.”
Tier 1 (Core Set)
Name one cross-cutting policy issue explicitly addressed by FDES.
Either of the ff:
Sustainable development
Climate change
Green economy
Agriculture and the environment
Water and the environment
Energy and the environment
Give one common institutional challenge in producing environment statistics.
Either of the ff:
-Insufficient institutional development
-Overlapping mandates and functions
-Inadequate interagency coordination
-Existence of data silos
-Limited or no data sharing
-Diverse technical capacity
Give one temporal scale at which environmental data are aggregated in FDES.
Either of the ff:
Hourly
Daily
Seasonal
Quarterly