1. What is UNEP Live?
An open platform of environmental information designed for global,
regional and national data sharing and assessment
www.unep.org/uneplive

2. • 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

3. 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

4. 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

6. Author & article update
information
Dynamic charts and
tables which are
easy to update with
new information

9. “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)

10. 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

11. 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

12. Networking other credible information sources

13. www.uneplive.org