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हिन्दी — Read in HindiNatural capital and environmental accounting
Counting forests, water, land and other natural assets in the national accounts, and the frameworks for doing so.
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MoSPI sets a 2026 to 2030 roadmap for India's environmental accounts
Copy link to MoSPI sets a 2026 to 2030 roadmap for India's environmental accountsBriefPrelims31 Oct 2026
- The National Statistics Office of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released a Strategy for Environmental Economic Accounts, 2026 to 2030 in October. It extends the 2022 to 2026 strategy and widens coverage to forests, minerals, soil, land, water and carbon stock.
- India follows the System of Environmental Economic Accounting, the framework endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission, and the Ministry began the work in 2018.
- Environmental accounts put the stock of natural capital, forests, water, soil and minerals, beside the national accounts. Environmental accounts show what growth costs in those stocks. Gross domestic product leaves that cost out. That is the idea behind "green GDP".
Exam lens: the System of Environmental Economic Accounting is the UN framework for natural capital accounts; MoSPI's National Statistics Office compiles India's, since 2018; the new strategy runs 2026 to 2030.
Sources
- PIB, 7 October 2026