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E2: Environmental statistics and accounts; sustainable development

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The indicator measures the economic losses from weather and climate-related events. Weather and climate-related events are defined as meteorological events (storms), hydrological events (floods, mass movements) and climatological events (heatwaves, cold waves, droughts, forest fires). 

In addition to the annual figures, a smoothed time-series based on 30-year averages is presented. In line with the climate normal period as defined by World Meteorological Organisation, these 30 years average figures reflect trends excluding the substantial climate variability on shorter time scales due to natural factors. The indicator is based on data from CATDAT of RiskLayer.

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Data is received from the from CATDAT of RiskLayer through the EEA under institutional agreement and have been adjusted for accounting for inflation and are presented in 2020 constant prices.

 The analysed hazards are classified in three categories: meteorological, hydrological and climatological events. 

All EU MS plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey

> 10 years

Presented time series starts in year 1980.

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million EUR and EUR per capita (2020 constant prices)

i. all events
ii. meteorological events
iii. hydrological events
iv. climatological events

Calendar year
Moving thirty-year average

CATDAT by Risklayer is one of the world’s largest and most detailed historical catastrophe loss databases. As a proprietary database, it is not publicly accessible. The dataset was provided to the EEA under institutional agreement.

Eurostat republishes the EEA indicator as part of the EU SDG indicator set.

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

Data are public.

Updates are scheduled once per year.

See EEA website

CATDAT by Risklayer is one of the world’s largest and most detailed historical catastrophe loss databases. As a proprietary database, it is not publicly accessible. The dataset was provided to the EEA under institutional agreement.

Indicator is disseminated every year.

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Evaluation of indicator is presented in Eurostat's annual monitoring report on Sustainable Development in the EU (progress towards SDGs in the EU context). The indicaotr is also included in Eurostat's Statistics for the European Green Deal visualisation tool.

Dataset cli_iad_loss

Derived table sdg_13_40

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Eurostat dedicated section on SDG's: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/sdi/overview

Please see EEA website.

Please see EEA website.

See the EEA website for more information on quality assurance.

See the EEA website for more information on quality management assessment.

The indicator is part of the EU Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator set. It is used to monitor progress towards SDG 13 on climate action; which is embedded in the European Commission’s Priorities under the European Green Deal. SDG 13 aims to strengthen countries’ resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters by integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation measures into national strategies, policies and planning.

Indicator can be considered as similar to the global SDG indicators 1.5.2 and 11.5.2 "Direct disaster economic loss in relation to global GDP" (related to Sendai indicator).

The EU places disaster and climate resilience as a central objective in its humanitarian assistance. The EU Resilience Marker is used in all humanitarian projects to define ways to reduce disaster risks and to strengthen people's coping capacities to disasters and crises. The Action Plan for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 – 2030 includes a strong focus on climate change adaptation, linking it to disaster risk reduction strategies and their coherent implementation in EU partner countries.

Furthermore, the new EU Adaptation Strategy urges smarter, faster and more systematic adaptation to fulfil the vision that in 2050, the EU will be a climate-resilient society, fully adapted to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. 

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EU-27 aggregates available

Indicator from non-ESS sources. For an assessment of accuracy please refer to the EEA website.

See EEA website

See EEA website

New data points are disseminated within two years after the reference year of data collection.

See EEA website for more detailed information on puntucality.

All EU MS as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey.

> 4 data points

Lenght of comparable time series without methodological break is longer than 4 data points.

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See EEA website.

The published data are final, unless otherwise stated. Corrections and revisions might occur.

Data set provider: European Environment Agency based on CATDAT by Risklayer
Link to the data source: https://www.eea.europa.eu/ims/economic-losses-from-climate-related

annually

See EEA website

See EEA website

See EEA website

See EEA website

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