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Welcome to the INECE Indicators Forum page. In this area of the site, you may participate in discussion with global and regional experts regarding key global, regional, and national parameters for assessing and reporting on environmental compliance and enforcement performance and explore in detail the existing work on the development of environmental indicators and assist in the establishment of indicators specific to compliance and enforcement. The forum highlights information from the INECE library of international resources. In the Forum, you may subscribe to the INECE Environmental Enforcement Indicators listserv and communicate with others around the world on this critical topic via the bulletinboard. Please check back often because this page will be frequently updated with new discussion topics and information.

Key Documents for Environmental Enforcement Indicators
Bullet INECE-OECD Expert Workshop on Environmental Enforcement Indicators Outcomes
This subsite complements the Indicators Workshop held 3-4 November 2003. The site provides logistical information, discussion questions, the background paper, images, the Workshop Agenda, and links to presentations and papers given by Workshop attendees.
Bullet Background on Enforcement Indicators developed by the INECE Secretariat
Background
What is an Indicator?
Links to Other Indicator Projects
Secretariat Research Notes
Bullet Stahl, Performance Indicators for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Programs: The U.S. EPA Experience Adobe PDF Icon
Bullet The INECE Enforcement Indicators: Executive Summary and Annotated Outline for a Multiyear Project (August 2002)
Bullet Compliance Analysis and Planning (CAP) Presentation, Frank Barrett, Environment Canada Adobe PDF Icon
Bullet OECD Presentation: Part 1 and Part 2, Krzysztof Michalak
Bullet Performance Measures: Indicators for Compliance Promotion and Enforcement Adobe PDF Icon
Presentation given in Quebec in March 2003 by Durwood Zaelke and Ken Markowitz
Bullet Special Edition of the INECE Newsletter on Environmental Enforcement Indicators Adobe PDF Icon
Bullet Performance Indicators for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Programs: The US EPA Experience Adobe PDF Icon
Bullet Indicators of Effective Environmental Enforcement (CEC)
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Other Environmental Indicators Projects
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World Bank Institute, Environmental Governance Program Developing Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators
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World Resources Institute: The Access Initiative; Global Forest Watch; and Reefs at Risk.
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World Bank: Web-Interactive Access to Governance Indicators
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OECD Statistics Portal and OECD Environmental Indicators

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European Environment Agency: Environmental Indicators (Drivers-Pressures-State-Impacts-Response Model)
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Web site for Expert meeting on indicators of biological diversity including indicators for rapid assessment of inland water ecosystems (Meeting held Feb 10-12, 2003 in Canada)
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European Environment Agency: An indicator-based approach to assessing the environmental performance of European marine fisheries and aquaculture

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CIESIN, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, and World Economic Forum: Environmental Sustainability Index
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Steering Group of the Global Principles Network, Principles for Global Corporate Responsibility: Bench Marks for Measuring Business Performance
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Environment Canada, quantitative indicators for ecosystem health

 

News and Current Events
INECE E-dialogue on Good Practices for Identifying Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators
INECE is hosting an e-dialogue on best practices for identifying environmental compliance and enforcement indicators on 18 August - 08 September 2004. The goal of this e-dialogue is to solicit ideas and country-specific examples and experience from environmental enforcement practitioners and other stakeholders on good practices for identifying environmental compliance and enforcement indicators.
UNEP-FI and GRI Seek Comments on Environmental Performance Indicators
The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) are inviting contributions to the development of the GRI Financial Services Sector Supplement (Environmental Performance), in particular on a set of 15 draft indicators, designed to assist financial institutions worldwide to report on the environmental impacts associated with retail banking, commercial and corporate banking, asset management and insurance. The deadline for contributions is 20 September 2004.
Environment Canada’s Workshop on Performance Measures for Compliance and Enforcement
Participants at Environment Canada WorkshopEnvironment Canada has been a leading contributor to the development of ECE Indicators, referred to in Canada as "performance measures." Environment Canada held a workshop on its six pilot projects pdf icon on 25-26 February 2004 to discuss results and lessons from these projects The workshop concluded with a clear mandate to extend the application and use of the performance measures.

INECE Develops Common Definitions for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators
March, 2004 - Following the conclusion of the INECE-OECD Workshop on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (ECE) Indicators, an Expert Working Group of Workshop participants formed to create a glossary of "common definitions" of ECE indicator terminology. The glossary, intended for use by ECE practitioners worldwide, provides key definitions for terms including "indicator," "logic model," "outcome indicator," and "compliance promotion." The Web-based glossary serves as a dynamic document to facilitate possible future additions of terms, definitions, and country examples. Please send suggestions for inclusion to inece@inece.org for consideration by the Working Group.

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INECE Indicators Bulletinboard
INECE has launched new bulletinboards on its topical Forums pages. Please read the Instructions for Registering, then visit the INECE Indicators Bulletinboard to post messages and read discussions of topics relevant to current affairs relating to the use of indicators for environmental enforcement and compliance.

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