Brussels, 08/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - An agreement on better monitoring and reporting of environmental data should be a first step towards measuring the EU economy on a wider basis than GDP, the European Parliament (EP) has said twice, firstly with its approval in Strasbourg on Tuesday 7 June of a draft regulation on European environmental economic accounts and then, on Wednesday 8 June, in adopting a resolution GDP and beyond - Measuring progress in a changing world.
The EP approved the...