India is expected to become the first country in the world to commit to publishing a new set of accounts which track the nation’s plants, animals, water and other “natural wealth” as well as financial measurements such as GDP.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/20/india-natural-wealth-accounts
Nature’s goods and services are equally if not far more central to the wealth of nations including the poor – a fact that will be increasingly the case on a planet of finite resources with a population set to rise to 9 billion people by 2050,” said Achim Steiner, UN under-secretary general and executive director of the UN Environment Programme .
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Thu, Oct 21, 2010
Climate Change, Indian Climate Change