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Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar has emphasised on adopting holistic approach taking into consideration both the environmental conservation as well as growth of the country. Javadekar has said this during the NCAVES India Forum 2021, organised by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) in a virtual format, with live sessions on January 14, 21 and 28, concluded on Thursday, according to a statement by MoSPI. The NCAVES stands for Natural Capital Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services . The event covered a wide range of topics pertaining to the System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA), according to the statement. MoSPI released the India EVL Tool giving a synoptic view of the environmental valuation studies conducted in India during the past 20 years.
The InVEST Offshore Wind Energy Production tool estimates wind power density from data on wind statistics (a probability density of wind speeds) at each location and then uses wind turbine characteristics (hub height, cut-in wind speed, cut-out wind speed, rated power, rated wind speed, etc.) to calculate the harvestable energy (table S3) (
30). We used global wind statistics at 30–arc min spatial resolution that are distributed with InVEST. These statistics were calculated from a global WAVEWATCH III hindcast reanalysis of winds globally for 1999–2012 (
30). We did not consider changes in energy resources over the 21st century because the anthropogenic climate change signal appears small relative to natural variability (