Gross Environment Product Index:
Uttarakhand has not just become the first Indian state to launch a Gross Environment Product Index.
- Gross Environment Product Index is presented as a novel, integrative metric designed exclusively to evaluate ecological development caused by human interventions.
- It will be determined by the condition of four main constituents of the environment which are directly impacted by development activities including air and water quality, number of trees planted in a year and the measure of the area of organic soil.
- The formula is, GEP index = (Air-GEP index + Water-GEP index + Soil-GEP index + Forest-GEP index)
- It provides quantzierte assessments of improvements in air, water, soil, and forest quality.
- It helps in assessing the impact of anthropological pressureon our ecosystem and natural resources.
- It provides a robust and integrated method for assessing a state’s ecological growth, capturing various facets of environmental well-being as a result of human actions
