The Ministry of Statistics has released a 2026-2030 roadmap to widen India's natural-resource accounts and link environmental data more closely with conventional economic statistics.

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• The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the Strategy for Environmental Economic Accounts in India 2026-2030 on 7 October 2026.
• The strategy extends the earlier 2022-26 roadmap for environmental accounting in India.
• It follows the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, an international framework that organises data on natural assets, resource use and ecosystem services.
• The Central Framework of this system was developed by the UN Statistical Commission as a standard for integrating environmental and economic data.
• MoSPI began environmental accounting in India in 2018, and the EnviStats India: Environment Accounts series has been published since then.
• The 2026-30 strategy adds new domains such as minerals, land, water, carbon stocks, environmental activities and environmental statistics.
• It aims to strengthen accounts for forests, water, minerals, land and other natural assets and make data more consistent across agencies.
• The strategy calls for policy-relevant indicators, more accessible publications and closer links between environmental accounts and government decisions.
• The earlier strategy had identified material flow, ocean, energy, biodiversity and urban ecosystem accounts as thematic areas.
• A pollination-services account is listed for 2026, and India has already compiled forest, cropland and wetland condition accounts.

Tags: MoSPI, EnvironmentalAccounting, SEEA