The Indicator Reporting Information System

The Indicator Reporting Information System (IRIS), a reporting system developed within the World Environment Situation Room Unit, situated in the Big Data Branch of UNEP’s Science Division, provides efficiency and capacity building on the reporting process and needs for member countries in meeting their reporting obligations at the regional and global level, ensuring consistent, reliable, up-to-date information for guiding research, preparing assessments, SDG and thematic reporting and thus, support UNEP’s goal of supporting member countries build capacity on environmental management issues. The Indicator Reporting Information System (IRIS) is a web-based application that aims to: • Reduce the institutional burden of recurring reporting • Make reports more timely by reducing their production time • Enable reuse and aggregation of information on reports • Enable institutional capacity development by sharing reporting knowledge and resources.