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MoSPI links sustainable-development tracking to UN environmental-economic accounts
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MoSPI links sustainable-development tracking to UN environmental-economic accounts
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released a roadmap for 2026-2030 that links India's tracking of sustainable-development metrics to the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA).
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The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released a roadmap for 2026-2030 that links India's tracking of sustainable-development metrics to the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA).
The framework is meant to measure the use of natural resources and environmental costs alongside conventional GDP figures.
MoSPI also released the findings of the first comprehensive household travel survey conducted by the National Statistics Office.
Sources: Topper IAS editorial (PIB / The Hindu / Indian Express)
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- MoSPI
- SEEA
- green accounting
- sustainable development metrics
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- MoSPI, SEEA, green accounting, sustainable development metrics
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Use as an example in GA answers (GS-III: Economy – Statistics and environment accounting).
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MoSPI has released a 2026-2030 roadmap that links India's tracking of sustainable-development metrics to which UN accounting framework?
- System of National Accounts 2008
- Millennium Development Goals framework
- Human Development Index methodology
- System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
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Answer: D — Correct: System of Environmental-Economic Accounting — The roadmap aligns the national framework with the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA), which measures natural-resource use alongside GDP. • System of National Accounts 2008 — wrong: The SNA 2008 measures conventional economic activity such as GDP; the roadmap is tied to the environmental accounting standard. • Millennium Development Goals framework — wrong: The Millennium Development Goals framework ended in 2015 and is not an accounting standard. • Human Development Index methodology — wrong: The HDI is a composite index published by UNDP, not an accounting framework.
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