Green GDP
Green
GDP is a word coined as a GDP after the compensation of environmental damages.
Due to climate change losses in biodiversity takes place and depletion in
available resources takes places. The accountability of using natural resources
is to be determined and factors likes water and air pollution and flood needs
to be considered. The economic development of country can’t be measured only on
the basis of economic progress, an essential constituent named as ecological
development needs to be measured by analytical analysis of environment wealth
state wise.
Green
GDP is essential because the cost of maintaining the degradation of natural
resources requires huge amount. Initially the information related to total
amount of surface water and utilization ratio was not considered. The equipment
cost, involved human cost and infrastructural cost are considered as basic
building block of green GDP. According to World Bank reports in 2013 India
suffered a loss of over $550 billion(Approximately 8.5 per cent of GDP) just because
of air pollution. The economic cost because of water pollution and land
degradation, can be much more.
In
India a scheme named ‘green skilling’ have been started by government to
involve youth, particularly school dropouts, they will be trained for following
purposes:-
·
Operators of
instruments used for measuring environmental quality
·
Field
maintenance staff of nature parks
·
Tourist
guides.
·
Surveyor of
land and resources.
It is an
international comparison of national expenditure, government spending over and
above the normal economical expenses. The budgetary provision and pre-allocation
are yet to be finalized in India whereas most of other developing nations have
incorporated this. In summarized manner if we see this Green GDP is basically a
futuristic approach for environmental
protection, natural resource optimization and management, ecological balancing
and substantial development. The supreme difficulty in measuring and
controlling the Green GDP is the calculation of the cost of health damage due
to industrial pollution, land degradation due to un-utilization, unplanned
resource depletion.
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