What is UNEP Live?An open platform of environmental information designed for global,

regional and national data sharing and assessment

www.unep.org/uneplive

• Provides easy access to environmental data and substantiated

knowledge about the state of the environment and emerging

issues

• Links national, regional and global data to generate insights

into sustainable development

• Supports networking of existing communities of practice to

capture, use, integrate and contextualize data

Who is it for?

• Government Ministries that collect and provide data and policy makers who use these data

• Assessment practitioners

• UN audiences and civil society through social media and other channels

Regarding assessments (national assessments, Global

Environment Outlook)…

• About doing what we have always done more effectively,

efficiently and dynamically

• Reduce effort required to collect and compile data for each

report

• Update data as it becomes available

• Greater coherence — “collect once, use often”

• Update previous reports and focus on trends, rather than

developing everything from scratch each time

Author & article update information

Dynamic charts and tables which are

easy to update with new information

“My Country” and State of Environment Reporting Toolkit

• My Country: bring together

publicly available environmental

data and information on a country

(held by UNEP, governments and

partners)

•Capacity building for generation,

analysis and use of information to

support different processes (e.g.,

SOER Toolkit)

MyCountry

Will provide access to:

• Country profile

• Maps and satellite imagery

• Key indicators of

environmental

performance

• Access to data providers

• Data toolkits

• Links to national website

• Links to the latest reports

• Latest environmental

updates

• Options to compare

countries

Country Profile

From a dashboard of indicators,

users can select a set and

visualize them using different

methodologies

Countries can be added for

comparative analysis

Data are drawn from the EDE

and supplemented with up-to-

date information from the

national platform

Networking other credible information sources

www.uneplive.org