EU Announces Plans for Green Index to Supplement GDP. By Paul Voosen, Greenwire, September 9, 2009. "On Tuesday, the European Union announced plans to launch an indicator this year to measure environmental stress. The index will reflect the pollution and environmental harm within the bloc's member states, including aspects of climate change, biodiversity, air pollution, water use and waste generation. GDP, which measures short-term spending, was not traditionally intended to measure well-being. And it is not a sufficient guide for modern policymaking that takes social and environmental objectives into account, said Stavros Dimas, the head of the environment directorate of the European Commission, the European Union's executive arm... The commission is positioning its environmental indicator as a supplement to GDP, not a replacement... The environmental index will be 'as simple, as reliable and as widely accepted as GDP,' Dimas said. 'It would be an index where populations take pride in positive results. It would change the way we understand progress and would be a catalyst for changing the way we live.'"
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