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Viveka Palm is a co-chair of the UN Inter-Agency and Expert Group for the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDG) since 2019. She has been a representative in the group for North America and Northern and Western Europe since 2015. The group gives advice in the process to develop the indicator system for the global follow up of the Agenda 2030.
Palm is a deputy director for the department of Regions and Environment at Statistics Sweden. She has a masters in Engineering Physics from KTH and also holds a PhD and a associate professorship from KTH .
She was the project leader for the Prince-project, Policy Relevant Indicators for Consumption and Environment, that was funded by the Swedish EPA and The Swedish Water and Marine Agency, to investigate how to follow up on the Swedish Generational goal, by measuring the environmental pressure fron consumption both within and outside of Sweden.
She is chair for the OECD Working Party for Environmental Information (WPEI) that meets once a year to maintain and develop the environmental information that OECD is using in its analyses and publishing in its data bases.
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Palm is involved in international and national work of developing the System of Economic and Environmental Accounts (SEEA) which is a statistical information system that is produced by the statiatical offices (www.scb.se/mi1301). In the EU there is legislation that makes it obligatory reporting with statistics for all EU countries published by Eurostat.
She is a member of The London Group on Environmental Accounts, a city group under the auspices of the UN on environmental accounts.
Palm has extensive experience working in the field of environmental economic statistics and accounts. Her interests cover a wide range of topics related to environmental accounts. This entails statistical areas in air emissions, chemical indicators, water use, environmental taxes, subsidies, and environmental protection expenditure, land use and their inter-linkage with the economy both from the production and the consumption side.
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