UNU-IHDP
and UNEP launch sustainability index that looks beyond GDP
Rio, 17
June 2012 – The world's fixation on economic growth ignores a rapid and largely
irreversible depletion of natural resources that will seriously harm future
generations, according to a report which today unveiled a new indicator aimed
at encouraging sustainability - the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI).
The IWI,
which looks beyond the traditional economic and development yardsticks of Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) and the Human Development Index (HDI) to include a full
range of assets such as manufactured, human and natural capital, shows
governments the true state of their nation's wealth and the sustainability of
its growth.
The
indicator was unveiled in the Inclusive Wealth Report 2012 (IWR), a joint
initiative launched at Rio+20 by the International Human Dimensions Programme
on Global Environmental Change (UNU-IHDP) hosted by the United Nations
University and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The report
looked at changes in inclusive wealth in 20 countries, which together account
for almost three quarters of global GDP, from 1990 to 2008.
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Source:
International Human Dimensions Programme