The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, MoSPI, has released the ‘Strategy for Environmental-Economic Accounts in India 2026-2030’. The Ministry informed that the strategy builds on the earlier roadmap for 2022-26 and aims to strengthen environmental accounting in the country. It focuses on expanding the coverage of areas including forests, minerals, soil resources, land, water, carbon stock, biodiversity and environment-related activities. The document seeks to address data gaps, identify potential data sources and provide an action plan for the development of environmental-economic accounts.
The strategy is also expected to help States and Union Territories strengthen their environmental accounting systems and better understand the relationship between natural resources, the economy and the environment. It will serve as a guiding framework for a more systematic and coordinated development of environmental-economic accounting in India during 2026-30.
The current document titled ‘Strategy for Environmental Economic Accounts in India: 2026-2030’ is an extension of the earlier document and is intended to provide a broad road-map with a objective of covering new subjects or enhancement of scope of the subjects like forest, minerals, soil resources, land, water, carbon stock, Environmental related activities, Biodiversity, environment statistics etc.
This is a news report by Akashvani News (All India Radio), reproduced as issued.
