Gross Environment Product Index

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